[{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford222","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Mar 18th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford222","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"L.S. Lowry, Japan","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford222","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford222.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 27\n\n18. 3. 75\nreplied: 20. Mar\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks for yrs of 15th.\n\nNo cheque from Mrs. Cash as yet.\n\nGlad to hear your lecture in Bedford went off\nwell.\n\nThe reason the Captain is my age is that it\nsaves calculations and the possibility of\nmistakes with dates. I established his age in a\npoem written some time ago (\u201cNotes Towards the\nFox Biography\"):\u201cBorn in Cologne,1920,father a\nSergeant-Maj or/Serving in the British Army of\nOccupation\". xxxx I hope to document his life\nas fully as any character in English poetry - not\nthat there are many \"characters\".\n\nI think \"laughingly\" should be changed,as you\nsuggest,and I'll think about the other emendations.\n\nAs you say,framing is expensive - the last\npicture I had framed cost about \u00a35 (Sherap's\nBuddha). The print was already framed,and the\n\u00a319 was for the print and frame - really an\nengraving which had been hand-coloured. Now I have\na flat I've more space for pictures and I'd like to\nacquire a few really good ones. I very much like some\nof L.S.Lowry. Sometimes one can pick up a\nsigned print of his.\n\nYes,the Mishima tells an odd story. Japan I\nfind an oddly fascinating country xxxxxxxxxx\nboth in its gentleness and barbarity. I hope they\n","Type":"Text"}}]