[{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford274","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Apr 6th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford274","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Captain Fox","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford274","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford274.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffpity he can\u2019t understand that I like him in a\nnumber of ways and my liking is not determined\nby whether he\u2019s a good writer or not. My closest\nfriend (the art teacher in Belfast) has no\ninterest whatever in writing -- I gave him a\nsigned copy of the Fox book but he probably\nlooked at it for 5 minutes and never opened it\nagain.\n\nI had a very interesting though short time\nin Germany \u2014 a stay lengthened by nearly a day\nbecause of our splendid fellows at Heathrow.\nMy German friend drove me to Stuttgart from his\ntown (Bietigheim),nearly an hour(s journey,only\nto find that the flight had been cancelled\nbecause of the strike. Fortunately,there was a\ncancellation on a Lufthansa flight the next\nmorning and I got it without any extra payment.\nHelmut drove me back in the pouring rain to his\nhouse,plied me with more food,beer and wine,\nconversation and music; and then we were up at\n5 a.m. to have a good breakfast before returning\nto Stuttgart Airport, (\u201cit\u2019ll be allright this\ntime\u201d,xxxxx he said, \"you can rely on Lufthansa.\"\nThe implication being that you can\u2019t rely on\nanything Britiish. I felt ashamed,knowing he was\nright.) Herta came and he put her up. We had a\nvery xxxxxxxxxx good time,as Helmut loves driving\nround and pointing out the sights -- interesting\nfor Herta too as she doesn\u2019t know that part of\nBaden-Wurrtemberg. The xxxx highlight for me was\na visit to the Schiller Museum in Marbach. xx I\nwas very lucky in that a Hermann Hesse exhibition\nhad opened a few days earlier. Oddly enough,I\u2019d\nread a Hesse novel a few months ago.\n\nStill feeling a bit tired after my Teutonic\nadventures and the attempt by British Airways to\nkeep me in Germany,bless their kind hearts.\n\nOnce again,lots and lots of success with\nINSIDE THE FORTIES.\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n","Type":"Text"}}]