[{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford312","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Oct 1st","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford312","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"The Times, Piccadilly","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford312","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford312.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffMy dear Derek,\n\nNo. 27   1st Oct. 77\nreplied 4th Oct 77.\n\nYour letter of 30 Sept has cheered me up.\nThanks.\n\nthe A.C. letter\n\nI felt rather depressed the day/min came -\ncouldn\u2019t eat any breakfast. Of course by the next\nday I was beginning to put it behind me ,not being\nmuch good at long-term depressions (the man for\nthat course was Clifford Dyment). So relative\ncheerfulness has broken in again despite the\nattempt to be a philosopher. Yes,I may make it\nnext time...\n\n1 saw the Hugo Manning obit in THE TIMES. In\nfact,I thought as I read it:\"That's Derek\u2019s\nstyle.\" But thought I was wrong. I've got one\nparticularly vivid memory of Hugo. One C'mas\nxxxxxduring the break-up with Patricia\n(she and A had gone to her sister's) I arranged for Freddie to\ncome to Ken Gh Walk. He didn't turn up and I\nkept waiting. When I went out it was too late to\nget lunch or even a sandwich anywhere. I went to\nPiccadilly by which time it was perhaps 3.30.\n\nI ran into Hugo and we went to Lyons Corner House.\nHe was very helpful. (Freddy explanation later was\nthat he thought G.P.Snow was plotting against him\nand that Snow was trying to get me into the plot!\nHe's long got over that sort of thing. Sounds like\na Muriel Spark story,don't you think ? Paranoia of\n","Type":"Text"}}]