[{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford225","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Apr 3rd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford225","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Scottish Poetry: Irish Arts Council, Belfast Art Gallery, John Hewitt","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford225","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford225.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 2 7 P. C.\n\n3rd April,1975\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks yrs of lst. SCOTTISH POETRY 7 is just\nwhat I want. Will return it later.\n\nMrs. Cash writes to say payment will he delayed.\n\nSent off my application for Southern Irish Arts\nCouncil Bursary. I enclose a leaflet xgiving some details.\nThere was a lengthy questionnaire that covered 7 foolscap\npages and I sent 3 photocopied texts of \"A Garland...\"\nOne Bursary is earmarked for an Irish language writer\nso that means strong competition for 2 from poets/\nnovelists/dramatists. I don't think I've much of a\nchance but might as well try. They might keep me in mind\nfor a future occasion. I buttered them up in various ways\n- pointing out how there was Northern-Southern\nco-operation in subsidising \"A Garland...\" etc. What\nsort of literary politicking goes on over this I\nwouldn't know about,but I know that in Belfast jobs\nsometimes went to an English applicant because a\ncommittee couldn't agree on a local candidate. John\nHewitt was assistant curator of the Belfast Art Gallery\nbut was turned down for the job of Curator (given to an\nEnglishman). Hewitt turned the tables on them by being\nappointed Curator of the Coventry Art Gallery. This was\nparticularly ironical since Hewitt is a keen local\npatriot! (Now retired,he's back in Belfast.)\n\nA very cold Easter but I take it you had snow (none\nhere). Bloody nuisance.\n\nFrederic Vanson has sent me his Welsh-published\nbooklet. Much better work in it than in otner publicat-\nions he has sent me. For me,his work is a bit spoiled by\nxxxxxxxxxx an occasional poeticism and Georgianism.\n\nBut he's obviously got talent. He also strikes me as\n\nx please return\n","Type":"Text"}}]