[{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford304","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Sep 13th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford304","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"The New Statesman, Arethusa","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford304","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford304.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff2 7 P. C.\n\n13 Sept 77\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nYour letter was a very good one since you explained in\nsome detail what you are trying to do in your stories. You have\nwhetted my appetite. Can understand how important it is to get\n\"a publisher's green light\". So it was old AE who thought up\nthe term 'psychometric' as applied to writing. What a strange\nmixture that old boy was of woolly visions and down-to-earth\nUlster commonsense! As for your stories,I wish them well and\nhappy landing with a generous publisher!\n\nG.W.Stonier was a great favourite of mine in the old days\nof the NEW STATESMAN. I always felt he wrote so well. As xxxx\nAuden suggested,anyone can be pardoned for writing well. Never\ncame across the SHADOW ACROSS THE PAGE,but can well believe it\nis 'a little masterpiece'.\n\nYes,I\u2019ve asked Jack B to read at \"The Ship\" (Holborn) on\nWednesday evg., 26 October. David Holbrook will be the \"star\"\non that occasion. DH had a recent letter in The Times lamenting\nauthors' small earnings. That reminded me of him. His publisher\n(one of his publishers) wrote to say he had decided to\" give him\n\u00a3150 more on his advance for his next novel. And the letter was\ndiscussed on the Radio 4 programme END THE WEEK last Saturday.\nI'd say that letter has netted DH quite a nice sum. Mind you,I\nthink he would earn more if he halved his output and played\nharder to get.\n\nThanks for your telling me of yr Arts Council experiences.\nNo,I'm not despondent,just a bit impatient. Jonathan Barker has\ntold me that the next meeting of the relevant committee will be\nheld towards the end of this month. Fingers crossed.\n\nThe current TIME OUT bills Dannie Abse and Tim Dooley (with\nRG as chairman) for a reading this coming Wednesday evg in the\nShip Tavern... if it had appeared at the right time we would\nperhaps have doubled our audience...\n\nArethusa has had a short article published in a paper called\nthe SOUTHERN STAR (about a new educational venture in Bantry).\nSimple language but quite clearly written. Very pleased as she\nreally needs a break.\n\n-;obt Lowell is the latest to go... only 60... But as Groarty\nonce wrote (it sticks in my mind,although I don't think he was\n","Type":"Text"}}]