<> Letters to Stanford Greacen Estate 1977 Sep 27th LHL Wednesday, March 16, 2016 TIFF GreacenStanford308 Letter Oxford, Dail, Roy McFadden English https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford308 LHL LHL Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford308.jpg LHL Archive  a 't'. He said Terence’s brilliance was obvious in his schooldays yet he told me of one or two incidents that forshadowed ultimate failure. Press works for Br Council in Oxford - I xxxxxx thought him the best poet of the 3. Other interesting people,too,so I had quite a day. Letter this a.m. from Sebastian Barker xxxxx(George B’s son) saying he would like to use a passage of 9 lines from my Brother Stephen in the next issue of AQUARIUS,a Heath- Stubbs’ xxxxx festschrift. I’m saying yes. This is the first time an editor has accepted a section fran a poem. Eddie Linden has collected a large amount of money and I'm told he's going to do a bumper issue,beautifully produced,that will do H-S proud. From meeting him and iron what I've heard Eddie knows damn all about poetry or anything else. He special- ises in knowing poets (and people with a few coppers to throw around). He told me that, having arranged a poetry reading in the H of Commons,he is new doing one in the Dail in Dublin. He also said he had got some money out of Roy McFadden (whose address I'd given him). Now Roy isn't mean but at the same time he doesn't exactly throw his money away,so I take off my hat to Eddie as a fund-raiser. Had dinner last night with my old teacher, Ronald Marshall (he lives now in his native Todmorden) at the Oxford and C(bridge Club. A delightful place, xxxxxxx Marshall,now in his late 60's,is a delightful man:cultivated,kind, gentlemanly in an un-snobbish way. Among other things,he knows Italian well and has been writing about a poet called Belli who wrote in the Roman dialect in the last century. Anthony Burgess has also written,in a novel,about Belli but Ronnie thinks Robert Garioch’s translations into Scots are absolutely spot-on. I told him about these when a few appeared in NEW POETRY, there are a lot more in Garioch's COLLECTED POEMS just published since our last meeting he has corresponded with Garioch (real name Robt Sutherland). Love to you both- Text