[{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford276","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Apr 19th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford276","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"The Guardian, The Observer, Robert Nye","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford276","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford276.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 27 P.C.\n19 April 77\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nThanks for yrs of 16th.\n\nYes, Potter in the GUARDIAN souned odd\nwith that business of 2nd thoughts. I doubt\nif your letter will appear. I\u2019ve often seen\nreally vicious reviews there and no letter\npublished subsequently. I don\u2019t think you\nneed worry about such reviews (e.g. OBSERVER-\nas they say, a bad review is better than no\nreview. Librarians and readers think that if\nspace is given at all then the book may be\nworth looking at.xxx Also,some xx reviewers\nare so notable (notorious ?) for attacks that\na good review would raise doubts in one\u2019s mind\n\nI felt about Michael Hamburger as you\naid about Robt Nye. Hamburger wrote me a\nletter of glowing praise about the Fox book -\nwhat a pity he didn\u2019t say evenhalf of it in\nprint! Then in a later letter he x said he\nhad recommended the book when in Dublin and\nCork,whether in public or private I don\u2019t\nknow. But his praise in public would carry\nweight. Alas! alas!\n\nAs for my rather sketchy 40\u2019s memoirs,a\npamphlet wd be the thing,but pamphlets don\u2019t\nsell. However,I'm glad to have committed these\nmemories to paper. One day somebody might\ncommission'a short book and I\u2019d have the raw\nmaterial to hand.\n\nHope your fiction is preceding well. I\ncan understand that feeling of the man-hours\none spends on such work and how one hopes for\nsome return on the time and effort.\nAnother poetry reading in public-at Horseshoe Hotel\nbeside Dominion Cinema , Tott Crt Rd, but the poets\nthis time are little-known and I don't think we can\nget a London Poetry Secretariat grant. It will be on\nSunday evg., 22nd May.\nLove to you both - Robert\n","Type":"Text"}}]