[{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford319","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Oct 17th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford319","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Goethe","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford319","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford319.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff27 P. C.\n\n17 Oct 77\nreplied: 20 Oct 77\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nThanks lor yrs of 14th. Sorry to hear you\nhave a cold and hope it\u2019s blown over by now.\nI simply dread another cold as I suffered so\nbadly last winter/spring and have not even\nshaken off the effects on my throat. I\nsaw an Indian doctor who gave me a nasal\nspray and I think this has helped a bit.\nSo I sympathise. A little coldls nothing but\na series of heavy ones is something else.\n\nThe Fox poem was very nicely read xx at\nMatchlight last Thurs evg. The xxxxx first\ntime I've heard someone read a Fox poem.\n\nInterested in yr Hugo Manning project.\nA man I respected very much though I never\nquite went for his poetry (perhaps the later\nwork is better). I agree with you about\nTHEY. The trouble with being friendly with\nwriters is that sometimes one respects/likes\nthe person, and not the work. And vice versa,\nI do NOT like George Barker but must admit\nthe quality of some of his work.\n\nHaven't read Goethe's fantasy or\nindeed much of that great gent - von\nGoethe ( a snob like Shakespeare). There's\na splendid novel about him by Thomas Mann:\nLOTTE IN WEIMAR. The only German I've been\nreading off and on in the last year is\nHermann Hesse (some think he is a Swiss:he\nis a German who went to live in S'land).\n\nI've even persuaded Herta to read him in\n","Type":"Text"}}]