[{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford230","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Apr 22nd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford230","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Faber and Faber","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford230","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford230.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff2 7 P. C.\n\n22 nd April,\nreplied : 25th Apl,\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nYr very interesting letter of 19th has\njust arrived - 3 days in post.\n\nDr. G.K. seems as strange as they come,\none of the surviving'Characters'. Has he\never had a job or is he of independent\nmeans ?\n\nFready went quietly. He isn\u2019t a fighter.\nToo passive,in fact. He was getting drunk\nregularly,a fact noticed by the landlady.\nThe last time he was drunk he fell down a\nflight of stairs and cut his head. I got\nhim up to bed with some difficulty,not to\nsay danger to life and limb. Next day the\nlandlady wrote to say he had to go and I\ndidn\u2019t exactly try hard to get her to give\nhim another chance. Actually,I did get her\nto let him stay one more night. He\u2019s now\nwith the Gillespies. He took my advice and\nwent to AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) for help.\nWhen I saw him a few days ago he had been\noff the booze for about 10 days and already\nlooked a lot better. It all depends on\nwhether he wants to destroy himself - or\nnot.\n\nCharles Monteith of Faber\u2019s (vice\nchairman - or \"chairman of vice\" has Terence\n","Type":"Text"}}]