[{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford306","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Sep 20th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford306","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"New England Review, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Referendum, Dail","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford306","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford306.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff2 7 P. C\n\n20th Sept. 77\nreplied:26 Sept\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nThanks for your letter of 16th.\n\nGlad to hear of your coming review for I.T. and of your\nplans for more stories using - if I get the drift right - the\nspirit of Rupert Brooke etc., to communicate their experiences\nto living people. A good idea.\n\nTomorrow evg Andrew Waterman in coming to No.27 to read from\nhis work. Then,on 26 Oct. (a Wednesday) ,we have a public reading\nwith David Holbrook and Jack B. at the xxx Ship Tavern,Holborn.\n\nI haven\u2019t met Holbrook and don\u2019t know what he's like as a reader.\nBut he's controversial and that may bring people along.\n\nHave you reviewed GOD'S APOLOGY ,a book about the friendship\nbetween Muggeridge,Hugh Kingsmill and Hesketh Pearson? I was\nvery interested in Kingsmill (though the whole book interested me)\nwho - to judge xxxx from the quotations - wrote distinctively,\nand was a terrific personality. His real name of course was Lunn\n(father was the travel agency man). And of course the poor chap\nhad a long,hard and unrewarding struggle with damn little fame and\ndamn little money. Pearson did well in the end out of his bio-\ngraphies. But all 3 of them were out of step with the Thirties\nLefties without being \"in\" with the Rightists. They were,polit-\nically,more or less old-fashioned patriots and small \"c\" conser-\nvative individualists. Did you ever meet H.K. ? I think you may\nhave written in the NEW ENG. REVIEW.\n\nI see that Conor Cruise O'Brien has put the pussy among the\npigeons yet again by saying that in a referendum in Ireland (as a\nwhole) the vote would be against unity. He's a very remarkable man\n-too brilliant (and eccentric) ever to be Top xxx Dog in the\nOther Island. He's in the Senate now,a more fitting place for\nbrilliant eccentricity than the Lr House (Dail). One of the few\npeople over there I'd like to meet.\n\nHave been following the case of Victor the Giraffe with great\ninterest. Today's paper tells me that : \"The Navy has agreed to\nmake a special sling similar to a huge pair of trousers.\" In what\nother country would Victor's adventures/misadventures be followed\nwith such interest ? It's still a great country,inflation\nnotwithstanding.\n\nLove to you both - Robert\n","Type":"Text"}}]