<> Letters to Stanford Greacen Estate 1977 Sep 20th LHL Wednesday, March 16, 2016 TIFF GreacenStanford306 Letter New England Review, Conor Cruise O&#039;Brien, Referendum, Dail English https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford306 LHL LHL Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford306.jpg LHL Archive 2 7 P. C 20th Sept. 77 replied:26 Sept My dear Derek, Thanks for your letter of 16th. Glad to hear of your coming review for I.T. and of your plans for more stories using - if I get the drift right - the spirit of Rupert Brooke etc., to communicate their experiences to living people. A good idea. Tomorrow evg Andrew Waterman in coming to No.27 to read from his work. Then,on 26 Oct. (a Wednesday) ,we have a public reading with David Holbrook and Jack B. at the xxx Ship Tavern,Holborn. I haven’t met Holbrook and don’t know what he's like as a reader. But he's controversial and that may bring people along. Have you reviewed GOD'S APOLOGY ,a book about the friendship between Muggeridge,Hugh Kingsmill and Hesketh Pearson? I was very interested in Kingsmill (though the whole book interested me) who - to judge xxxx from the quotations - wrote distinctively, and was a terrific personality. His real name of course was Lunn (father was the travel agency man). And of course the poor chap had a long,hard and unrewarding struggle with damn little fame and damn little money. Pearson did well in the end out of his bio- graphies. But all 3 of them were out of step with the Thirties Lefties without being "in" with the Rightists. They were,polit- ically,more or less old-fashioned patriots and small "c" conser- vative individualists. Did you ever meet H.K. ? I think you may have written in the NEW ENG. REVIEW. I see that Conor Cruise O'Brien has put the pussy among the pigeons yet again by saying that in a referendum in Ireland (as a whole) the vote would be against unity. He's a very remarkable man -too brilliant (and eccentric) ever to be Top xxx Dog in the Other Island. He's in the Senate now,a more fitting place for brilliant eccentricity than the Lr House (Dail). One of the few people over there I'd like to meet. Have been following the case of Victor the Giraffe with great interest. Today's paper tells me that : "The Navy has agreed to make a special sling similar to a huge pair of trousers." In what other country would Victor's adventures/misadventures be followed with such interest ? It's still a great country,inflation notwithstanding. Love to you both - Robert Text