[{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford307","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Sep 27th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford307","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Hamlet, William Shakespeare","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford307","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford307.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffMy dear Derek,\n\nGlad to have your views and news.\n\nKingsmill wrote some very good aphorisms.\nA simple yet quite good one (which I hope to\nprofit from) is:\"To be angry is to be wrong.\"\nThere are cleverer ones than that. He was\nforced into anthologising to try to make\nmoney and in fact he never did make anything\nworthwhile out of them or his critical books.\nSome failed to cover the advancem and he\nlived with financial anxiety.\n\nInteresting about John Smith who xx\nobviously has prospered from flogging other\npeople\u2019s work. (I don\u2019t hold this against\nhim . It's just a fact of life that it\u2019s a\nbit easier for middlemen to prosper.)John\nonce told me he came from the working class,\nso he must have had a hard struggle at some\ntime or other. Yes,I suppose if all the books\nin the world were burned some of the \"memory\nmen\" would be in clover. HAMLET, PRINCE OF\nDENMARK by William Shakespeare as remembered\nby Eric Snooks....EVEN WITHOUT IRENE as\nremembered by R.G. etc.\n\nWent to Henley-on-Thames on Sunday. Lunch\nat Shirley\u2019s, then a reading at 4 p.m. in\nschool opposite - John Press,Edward Lowbury,\nMichael Riviere. Talked a lot with Press and\nLowbury - the latter a doctor in B\u2019ham and\nabout whom I knew some facts derived from T.W.\nGervais. Lowbury said Terence had been his\nbest friend at school. He\u2019s a totally different\nsort of character and has Terence summed up to\n","Type":"Text"}}]