[{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford283","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Jul 13th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford283","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Inside the Forties, Publisher","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford283","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford283.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 27 P.C.\n\n13th July '77\nreplied:21 July '77\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks for yrs of 12th.\n\nCongrats on the Readers Union edition\nof INSIDE THE FORTIES. Good-oh! as xxxxx\nschoolgirls said in the 40* s. Glad to hear\nyou are working on the stories and I hope\nyou will find a publisher.\n\nJack B will tell,x you about the reading\nlast Sunday. He was a great help to me there,\nlooking after Herta and another woman I know:\ngetting drinks for them,chatting etc. He also\nsaid some very nice things about Captain\nHoratio Fox,C.B,E. Michael Hamburger brought\nalong some Berlin friends - they came first\nfor drinks to No.27. A very nice fellow,\nHamburger. Poor chap,his son\u2019s a drop-out and\nhas been in trouble with the police over drugs\n(shades of Roy McFadden and his son).\n\nHoward Constable - bad joke - is coming\nto talk about OUTPOSTS to the Group on 20th\n(Wednes next). Would you be willing to come\nsome time to talk about the Forties ? Perhaps\nin August ? i asked Matthew Sweeney today if\nthis wd interest him and he said yes;very\ndefinitely - the 25 yr olds are not prejudiced\na bit against the 40*s and sane o\u00a3 them wonder\nwhat it was like to be a poet during the last\nWar. If not in August,what about later on ?\n\nYou could spend the night here or,more\ncomfortably perhaps with Jack. As I run these\nmeetings at a slight loss I couldn\u2019t offer a\nfee... sorry.\n\nhas told\n","Type":"Text"}}]