[{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford285","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Jul 22nd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford285","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Oxford, Under Siege","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford285","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford285.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 27 P.C.\n\n22 July 77\nreplied 25th July\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks for yrs of 21st.\n\nA pity Wed is a bad evg for you. The Group\nhave got into the habit of xx meeting on that\nevg as it suits most of them. Perhaps when we\nmeet we cd talk about possibilities.\n\nI\u2019ve look at the Oxford Lit Guide in a\nb\u2019shp and I agree that it seemed delightful.\nWhat a lot of work it must have entailed.\n\nHoward gave us a nice evening. Even the\nyounger members thought he came out of it\nwith credit. Herta read a couple of poems in\nGerman -- a language known to a couple who were\nhere. She was also impressed by Jack whom she\nmet for the 2nd time -- he is her idea of 'the\nEnglish gentleman' (and I agree!)\n\nYes,I saw the ref to myself in UNDER SIEGE\nwhich has come for review. Hewison has kindly xx\nsent me an invitation to the launching party\nnext Thursday,altho\u2019 I met him only once - at\nthe Arts Council Poetry Library. Fortunately\nthe book only slightly overlaps with yours and\nhe is of a yonger generation. So that the xxxxxxx\nsubject\nis tackled in a totally different way. He's a\nvery bright boy as I realised after half an\nhour's chat. \n\nI have wrtten 1 poem about Fox\u2019s childhood\n(a holiday in Ireland). But I can\u2019t get ideas.\nxx they will either cone or not and if I forced\nmyself to do something on these lines it /they\n","Type":"Text"}}]