[{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford219","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Mar 10th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford219","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Peggie, Presbyterian, The Times","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford219","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford219.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff10.3.75\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nDelighted to see you and Peggie this evening. Many thanks\nfor your letter; otherwise I wouldn't have known. Why I didn't\nhear about the meeting is mysterious (1) she has already written\nto me here and (2) letters to the old address are being forwarded,\nthough these are rare (one came the other day - the Income Tax\nsaid they would sue me for non-payment and I replied to the effect\nthat I would pay as soon as I was informed how much I had to pay!)\n\nGetting back to this evening - at the end yr Mrs. Cash said\nshe would be sending out cheques soon,so it wasn't necessary for\nme to raise the topic. She's a bit of a xxxxx prima domna-ish,\nCovent Garden (music not fruit) type,solidly manufactured in the\nAntipodes where women are women and not scarecrows. I had a few\ncheery words with that scatty Eddie Linden. Fred Vanson and wife\nseem nice people,but I can't honestly say I was impressed by Fred's\npoem. Only heard a few poems at the end - the one I DID like was by\nTony Bowers whom I chatted to and liked personally. He said he had\nwritten better ones but didn't know- where to send 'em. Another\nmystery is why Gerald Clarke wasn't there as I can't imagine his\nrefusing. He will be very disappointed as he gets few chances to\n\"mingle with the mighty\".\n\nHow dxd the lunch with Fraser Harrison go ?\n\nFreddy had a very sober weekend but I've a hunch that he's out\nhitting the high spots in N.H.G. this evening. I think he is a\nlittle afraid of my Presbyterian self-righteousness. His own xxxxxx\nbackground - non-conformist parents from South Shields - was also\nrather sober. I don't think his old man ever touched the stuff: a\nsherry at Christmas kind of thing. Perhaps the Cornish grandfather\nwas another cup of mead or whatevr they x swill down in the Duchy.\n\nSince I came back had a phone call from Herta who says her\nback is much,much better. The advt in THE TIMES didn't draw a xxxx\nsingle reply. \u00a39 down the drain.\n\nJack looked well and I was sorry he had to rush off.\n\na rather nice hand-coloured engraving the other day,\nin Ealing (where I go every Friday morning). It was engraved for\nP.T.O\n\nin Ealing (where I go every Friday morning)\u2022\n","Type":"Text"}}]