{"nodes":[{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford001","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1970 Oct 30th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford1","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Northern Ireland Arts Council, Roy McFadden","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford001","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford001_0.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 62 .\n\nOct.30,1970.\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nTnanks for note(on beautiful card).\n\nI'll look forward to getting your book from Elizabeth. Good\nnews about B and B.\n\nI may have told you I applied for a \"Bursary\" xxxxx awarded by\nN.Ireland Arts Council. Had a letter of regret,but the Secy said\nI should apply next year. A faint gleam of hope. (They awarded 3\nof these,\u00a3300 each,to local authors - all in their thirties,I\u2019d\nsay.) This broadcast may be a help,in showing the boys who hand\nthese things out that I didn\u2019t stop writing at the end of the\n40's.\n\nDid I tell you my old pal Roy McF has a pook of poems coming\n- don't know when - from Chatto ? He wrote a poem for my 50th\n(enclose a copy): a good boy.\n\nI'm nearly healed up now in that awkward place ...What a time of\nit poor Peggie has had! Sympathy to her and good wishes for\na speedy recovery.\n\nMeeting on Nov.llth wd be fine. Shall we meet at Victoria ?\n(There are plenty of little restaurants near-by .) In the Golden\nArrow bar ? Let me know when and where - anywhere in central\nLondon will suit,of course.\n\nI've written anotherx chapter. It deals with my meeting with\nForrest Reid. Do you know his work?- \"Apostate\" etc.    \n\nLove,\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1376"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford010","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1972 Dec 12th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford10","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"British Museum","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford010","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford010.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffBritish Museum Reading Room\n12.12.72\n(Tuesday)\n\nHave just ordered the photocopies.\nThey could not tell me the exact day to call for them \u2013 probably end of the week.\nWill then post them off to you.\nLove to you both - Robert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1385"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford100","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Mar 20th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford100","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Arts Council","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford100","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford100.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff\n20/3/74\n\nMy dear Derek,\nHere's the cutting re Arts Council anthol.\n\nNEW POEMS\n\nArts Council of Great Britain intends to produce an\nanthology of new verse by British poets. Poets wishing to\nsubmit work for consideration should send typescripts (two\ncopes of each poem and not more than six poems in all)\nto Charles Osborne, Literature Director, The Arts Council of\nGreat Britain, 105 Piccadilly, London W1V OAU. Closing date:\n31st . May, 1974.\n\nGive 'em six of the best!\n\nLove to you both\nRobert\n\nMuch enjoyed our lunch\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1475"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford101","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Mar 30th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford101","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Gollancz, Gallery Press, Honest Ulsterman","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford101","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford101.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff\n\n36 H P M\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks yrs 30/3.\n\nGlad you liked the Cecil Salkeld piece. He\nwas a remarkable man but,as you see,fulfilled\nonly some of his potential. Journalists always\nget it wrong. The title of the chapter from\nwhich the extract was taken is \u201cA Season in\nDublin\"; not the title of the book which xx\nremains\n\"The Sash My Father Wore\". As it happens I've\ntaken on morning teaching at a school round the\ncorner - Davies,Laing and Dick,the tutors -\nas otherwise I can't xxxx cope with the cost\nof living and the xxxxxx falling off of review\nbooks. My life-long problem: can I afford to be\na writer ? can I afford to drain my xxxx energy\nin teaching which is not really my vocation\nthough I enjoy it in small doses ? But one just\ncan't depend on reviewing because of the way the\nwork fluctuates. I hope you have not been hit by\nthe decline in the output of new titles. I think\nwhat wd solve my problem, for 1 year anyway,wd be\none of these x writer in residence jobs. But\nunless I can get a creative book (i.e. poems)\npublished,I haven\u2019t much chance.\n\nNo news from Gollancz,but Peter Fallon\nof Gallery Press has written to ask me to let\nhim have a complete set of Fox mss. Which I\u2019ve\ndone. I think it depends on whether he likes\nthem enough plus his availability of capital.\nI've had that poem about George Best in the\nlatest H.U. though a copy hasn't yet arrived.\nRoy apparently joins me there - the first time\nfor him. Until now,he's always been prejudiced\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1476"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford102","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Mar 30th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford102","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Honest Ulsterman, Holland Park","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford102","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford102.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffagainst H.U. Prob. thought it too undergrad.\n\nHave also had Valerie's verse \u201cseizure\u201d,as you\naptly put it. Not bad,but derivative. It confirms\nmy view that she is very clever but basically un-\ncreative,unoriginal; a good imitator of the styles\nof others - not to be despised,but limiting. I\nfound the piece quite xxxx effective.\n\nI wonder if Cis is filling yr lamp with oil.\nI've had nothing since Christmas,but B.B.N. keep\nsending.\n\nSomewhat wearily\u2014 love to you both\nRobert\n\nRe future lunch meetings. I work until 1 p.m.\nin Holland Park (quite literally round the corner}\nso what I suggest is that we cd perhaps meet xx\nsomewhere near xxxxxxxxxxxx Gloucester\nRd Station about 1.30. There are a couple of\nquite attractive restaurants there - xxxxxxxxxx\ne.g. Dino's and Kardomah. Anyway, that's for future\nreference. And of course this work may prove temporary.\nR\n\nHave you thought of selling your autobiography in pieces\nrather that as a xxxxx book?\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1477"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford103","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Apr 9th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford103","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Gallery Press, Faber and Faber, The Irish Times, The Irish Press","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford103","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford103.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff\n36 H P M\n\n9th April,'74\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nThanks for yrs of 5th.\n\nGallery Press address is 19 Oakdown Road,\nDublin, 14. I expect P.F. will be glad to send\nthe Mangan.\n\nStill haven\u2019t had a B and B book this year.\nRather ironical,since Cis has always seemed so\nvery friendly. Do you think that our fussing\nabout payment may have had an effect ? An order\nfrom the powers-that-be to go easy on DS and\nRG?(unintentional rhyme here!)\n\nOne doesn\u2019t expect such sloppy printing from\nFaber\u2019s. It\u2019s symptomatic of the general decline\nin standards: mis-spellings and wrong usages\neven in The Times these days. Couldn\u2019t-care-less-\nism. On an Underground poster: \"Fuck of\u201d - not\nthat one can expect much from Tube writers. But\nsome years ago they might have managed to get it\nright.\n\nEnclosing copy of letter in today's IRISH\nTIMES which will,I think,be self-explanatory.\nI\u2019ve been seeing my old schoolmaster Ronnie\nMarshall (the man who had the bad accident). The\nMinister was also a pupil of his (at same\nschool x but not in my year) but Ronnie's enthusiastic\nabout what I say. Mclvor is a successful barrist-\ner and Ronnie tells me he would look askance at\na \u00a3150 briefing. I wanted to be clear that I\nwasn\u2019t attacking the Arts Council itself Or its\nofficials.\n\nThe other paper,IRISH PRESS,has accepted\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1478"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford104","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Apr 9th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford104","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"The Irish Times","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford104","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford104.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffthe rest of the chapter called \"A Season in\nDublin\", the first part of which,you'll\nremember appeared in the IRISH TIMES and\ndealt with the painter Cecil Salkeld. I would\nhave sent the rest of it to the IRISH TIMES,\ntoo,but didn't think they would print the\nSalkeld because,as I told you,I hadn't con-\ntributed for many years. Anyway,it's got in\nsomewhere.\n\nNo Fox news.\n\nHope all goes well.\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n\nGoing to the Priestly (\"Eden End\")\nat Old Vic this evg. It's had quite\na good press. At least Priestly knows\nabout construction. \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1479"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford105","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Apr 11th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford105","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"H. Montgomerry Hyde","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford105","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford105.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 36\n\n11th April, '74\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nA quick note to give you a wee bit of good\nnews. I saw Cis Amaral today (to pick up a\nfew copies) and she tells me yr Heath-Stubbs\nwill be in the next issue. She explained how\nwith less space and,until now,fewer books\ncoming in I d got nothing this year. But she\nseemed as friendly as ever towards both of us.\nMontgomery Hyde came while I was there and we\nhad a brief chat.\n\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1480"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford106","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Apr 17th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford106","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"W.B. Yeats, Ian Paisley, Michael Longley","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford106","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford106.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff3 6 H P M\n\n17 Apr 74\nreplied: 21 Apl.\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks for yrs of Good Friday.\n\nYes, \u201cthe other hand\u201d was W.B.Y.; It\u2019s\n\u201cThe O\u2019Rahilly\u201d frcm \u201cLast Poems\u201c, p.354 in\nCOLLECTED POEMS. I\u2019ve got the 1958 edn that\nbelonged to Clifford D. - sometimes with\ninteresting notes by C.D.\n\nInteresting news about Jack B - \u201cwhere\nthe swift Bermudas ride\u201c - I quote from\nmemory. Also about Whittington-Egan and yr\nLatvian ex-student.\n\nLast night I met Freddy V and his new\nlady friend,an Ulster Protestant, xxxxx,at\nL.G.'s. Freddy has put on an appalling xxxxxxx\namount of weight. When he was out of the room\nshe told us he was drinking very heavily when\nshe met him - still is,but she has tried to cut\nit a bit. She\u2019s a typical Prod of the less\neducated sort - thinks Paisley is a great man\nand forthright in opinions. F could do a lot xxx\nworse. They\u2019re off to Cornwall where F\u2019s xxxxxxx\nancestors hail from. The case cost him \u00a32,000,\naccording to his friend - and he\u2019s been at his\nold game of spending money like water. A\nstrange character.\n\nThe Minister of Edn in N.I. has not\nreplied to my onslaught but there was a reply\nyesterday by Michael Longley stating the facts.\nI\u2019ve forced some information out into daylight\n- there's a bursary pool of \u00a35,000 p.a. for\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1481"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford107","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Apr 17th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford107","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"The Irish Times, Michael Longley, Arethusa","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford107","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford107.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffwriters,musicians,painters etc. Last year they\ngave 4 awards to writers. The playwright whom\nthe IRISH TIMES said was given \u00a3150 was in\n\nfact given \u00a3850 (just a misprint). Now I've sent\nanother but less explosive missive. I take care\nto say nice tnings about the Arts Council people,\nesp Longley while attacking their bosses in the\nGovt. And I've written to Longley. I don't want\nto bore you with the various points that have\narisen but I think it will be of interest to\nwriters over there,North and South.\n\nA new development in my life that I think xxx\nwill be important,but of this when we meet.\n\nArethusa writes to say she's started a job\nnear her heme in a posh hotel - 9 quid bed and\n'full Irish breakfast' - French chefs and all\nthat. The proprietor xx is a man called Graves,\nnephew of Robt Graves,with a Fr wife. Arethusa\nsays her job is \"typing,typing,typing!'. Graves,\nshe says,\"is quiet,nice at times but can be\nsullen\". Adds:\"the pay is low (the richer people\nare the meaner they seem to be)\". Our xxxxxxxxx\nrelationship has developed wonderfully and she\nwrites much more interestingly these days.\n\nYes,I think Cis is allright and things will pick up again.\n\nHow goes the weather?\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1482"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford108","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Apr 20th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford108","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"The Irish Times, Books and Bookmen","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford108","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford108.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff3 6 H P M\n\n20th Aprril,'74\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nI thought you might like to see what I\nhope is my final blast in the xxxxxxxx I.Times\nabout Grants. Nobody else has entered the\nlists and the most sensible course for the\nMinister would be to keep quiet- He's a polit-\nician and knows when he's on a bad wicket.\n\nAs you have seen from the letter I sent\nyou,Yorkshire has said no,v. politely.\n\nUnless you find this cutting of special\ninterest perhaps you wd return it. I don't\nintend to spend much time writing letters to\nEditors,but I can't see that it does any harm\nnow and then. I thihk you are due for xx such\na letter in B and B: \u201cRoll up,roll up,for the\nbarefist fight between Colin Wilson,the\nCornish xxxxxxx champion ... and,on my right,\nthe Sussex champion,Derek Stanford... Take\nyour places,gentlemen....\"\n\nAmused to see the Wolverhampton wonder\nturning into Ulster's new Carson. Ireland\nhas usually been a graveyard for English\npoliticians. One great exception was Willie\nWhitelaw. But \"Knocker\" will be another cup\nof tea\n\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1483"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford109","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Apr 23rd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford109","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Ulster, W.B. Yeats","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford109","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford109.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff3 6 H P M\n\nSt. George's Day '74\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks for yrs of 21st.\n\nI see that epistular x\nbeen wafted across xx the Irish Sea and have\ninfected you with R.G.'s disease. You say you\nenclosed Armstrong's letter but I xxxxxxx cdn't\nfind it. Not that it causes me much pain NOT\nto read Robt Armstrong's prose. Yr reply I have\nread with interest and enjoyment. I agree that\nlover judge \u201care not quite the same thing\u201d,\nthough perhaps judicious lovers and loving\njudges may be found (hey,Diogenes,lend me your\nlamp!).I note the reference to R.G. and apprec-\niate why it's better not to name him or quote\nhim on the \u201cHomeric happening\u201d. The letter is a\nmasterpiece of sly hints and velvet-gloved\nblows. Even yr last sentence.'\n\nFreddy has sent me a card from Looe and he\nrang last night when I wasn't here. He's re-\nturning on Wednesday evg (tomorrow) and says\nhe will phone. I'm sure Paul A enjoyed hearing\nthe latest episode. We'll see what we shall see,\nand I suppose I'll have to listen to Mary Hayes\non Ulsterian politics. I feel like W.B.Y. about\nhis/my \u201cfool-driven land\u201d. How goes the weather?\nYes,refrain from \u201cThe O'Rahilly\u201d.\n\nYes,May 8 in V and A is fine. I finish at\n\nx epistolary?\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1484"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford011","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1972 Dec 22nd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford11","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Seamus Heaney","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford011","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford011.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H.P.M.\n\n22.12.72\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nWhat a delightful lunch meeting today! (Again, many thanks\nfor the present.)\n\nHere's the latest H.U. - A very lively journal methinks. Simmons\nis quite good on the new Seamus Heany though usually I find Simmons\na bit too brash. Well, this is probably my last letter of 1972 -\nso here's to Life and Letters in 1973!!\n\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1386"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford110","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Apr 23rd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford110","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"The Irish Times, Peggie","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford110","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford110.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffxxxxxx 1 p.m. near where I live and will get\nthere at earliest,i.e. the Library.\n\nEncs (2) - an extract from a humorous xxxxxxx\narticle in the IRISH TIMES by a fellow callea\nFoley who can be quite entertaining - and a\nfolder about Ballylickey House Hotel where\nArethusa is now working. Perhaps you'd return\nthe latter but not the Foley cutting. Why don't\nyou ana Pegeen - sorry,Peggie - have a holiday\nover there? As for me,I want to keep clear of\nthe Hutchins country. I HAVE BEEN THERE BEFORE!\n\nTall games go walking in grass-green\nAvalon\n\nLove to you both-\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1485"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford111","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Apr 27th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford111","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Arts Council","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford111","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford111.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff   36 H P M\n\n27 Apr 74\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nHope you've got rid of the cough and cold.\nI know so well what this kind of thing is like\nand had a xxxxxxxdreadful go of it just after\nC'mas. Fortunately I've been allright since.\nHere's a tip but perhaps you already know it.\nCut out MILK. I've had practically no milk\n(except when I have tea/coffee x elsewhere) for\nperhaps 2 months. I learned to like tea/coffee\nwithout sugar years ago,and now I can dispense\nwith milk,too. Sugar is a villain and milk is\nnot far behind! Seriously,I've had far less \nsneezing and membrane irritation since I said NO\nto the Demon Milk. If you xxxxxxx disagree with\nthis opinion,please pardon my eccentricity.\n\nFreddy sent me a nice card from Looe and said\nhe wd ring on his way through London on Wed evg.\nHe rang from Cornwall on Tues and said- told Mrs.\nWechsler he wd ring on Wed evg. I was at home all\nthat evg. Did he ring ? Not on yr nelly. Next\nday I rang L.G. who told me that F had been\nround at his place and said it was impossible to\nget me on the phone. He and his Mary have gone xx\nback to Banbrmdge. Need I comment ?!\n\nLetter frcm Assembyman Hugh Logue (S.D.L.P.,\nDerry) who asked the Arts Council question in\nN.Ireland Assembly. He sent me a copy of the\nexchange with the Min of Ed. and asked me to\nlet him have information about 'writers in\nresidence' xxxxxx schemes. He intends to go into\nthe attack again on behalf of writers and\nartists,with the support of one or two colleagues\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1486"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford112","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Apr 27th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford112","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Scottish Arts Council, John Hewitt, Belfast","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford112","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford112.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffI\u2019ve written a Memo for Logue dealing with\nschemes I know about: Scottish Arts Council,\nGregory Fellowship, Yorkshire Arts Assn and\nGr. London Arts Assn. Do you know of any others ?\nOr any writers who have information ? Sent a\ncutting to Brigid Brophy who has kindly replied\nand said she will give a mention in WAG news-\nsheet.\n\nBought a Laurie Lee letter,lengthy and\npre-War,for xxxx. \u00a312 the other day. Discusses\na poem by a poet I hadn\u2019t heard of.\n\nNice letter today from John Hewitt who has\nretired from Coventry Art Gallery and gone back\nto B\u2019fast. I had written to congrat him on his\nreceiving Hon D.Litt from New Univ Ulster (Cole-\nraine) .\n\nGood luck with yr controversies -\n\nNot drowning but waving (with apologies)\n\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n\nto the 8th\n\nNot a single book from B and B this year,but with\nmy extra teaching work it\u2019s just as well. Feel\ntired enough as it is.\n\nYr first guess was bang on. Cherchez la femme.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1487"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford113","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 May 7th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford113","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Stranmillis","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford113","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford113.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffAutumn 1939\n\nMcFadden hawked \"Peace News\" in Royal Avenue,\nOutraged the moon-faced citizens.\nEND THE WAR! PEACE NOW!\n\nWhile I was buying stamps in the G.P.O.\nFor frantic letters to Irene.\nEND THE WAR! PEACE NOW!\n\nMcFadden showed me his singing poems.\nI said : \"John Keats is dead\".\nEND THE WAR! PEACE NOW!\n\nLeaves choked the Stranmillis gutters,\nSlow fuses smouldered up the Falls.\nEND THE WAR! PEACE NOW!\n\nRobert Greacen\n\n5th May '74\nMy dear Derek -\nThis is my latest effusion.\non Wedsesday.\nLove to you both - Robert\nMuch enjoyed yr piece on Heath - Stubbs + yr letter on\nBrother Colin. He answered civilly.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1488"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford114","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 May 27th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford114","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"British Rail","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford114","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford114.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff 36 H.P.M.\n27 xx May, '74\nreplied. 29 May \n\nMy dear Derek,\nYes, I got a beer at Leis station. Yesterday was\nas perfect a day as one could\nwish for - even British Rail\nwas at it's (rare) best.\nMany thanks for you and Peggie's hospitality.\nEnclosed \"Two Poets, Two Wars\". please return\nas I've no other copy. Haven't\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1489"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford115","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 May 27th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford115","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"B.B.C","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford115","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford115.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufefflet Roy see it - would like\nhim see it in print as a\nsurprise.\nGlad to hear on B.B.C. news\nthat the army has gone in....\ngood luck to them!\n\nLove to you and Peggie\n- Robert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1490"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford116","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jun 1st","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford116","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Roy McFadden, Peggie","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford116","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford116.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H P M\n\n1st June, 1974 replied:4 June\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nThanks yrs of last Wednes. and yr kind\nwords re \"Two Poets,Two Wars\". We'll see whether\nHIB agrees with you.\n\nEnc a letter and new poem frcm the indefat-\nigable , indomitable Roy. Won\u2019t attempt to explain\nsome of the allusions. He says \"your friend\nJohn Gibson\" - Gibson was his friend,I never\nmet the fellow. You see that by now you have\nbeen incorporated into the McF-G mythology.\nRoy\u2019s a mythologist,a blender of fact and\nfiction. If there were an Exam in his world of\nmystification and imagination,one question\nmight be:\n\nWhy does R.McF. sometimes refer,in letters\nto R.G.,to Mrs. Peggie Stanford as \"Mrs.\nJolly\u201d ?\n\nIf you don\u2019t know the answer, I'll tell you.\n\nWhat do you think of \"Bring Back the Clowns\" ?\n\nShan!t attempt to deal with what you say\nre N.I situation. I agree with some of it though\nperhaps not all. Fortunately,unlike Leslie G,you\ndon\u2019t fly off the handle unless there is 100 %\ninstant agreement! Briefly,2 new factors in\nthe last few years:1. growth of Protestant\nUlster nationalism Cnow recognised by Rees) and\n2. assertion of power by working-class who\nhitherto were led by aristos,country gentry\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1491"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford117","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jun 1st","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford117","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Protestant, Rhodesia, Ballymena","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford117","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford117.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffand rich manufacturing class.\n\nAfter their defeats over the past few years,the\nProtestants - esp the workers and lr middle class\nare now in a cocky mood ,having brought down\nthe Executive. Forward now to independence a la\nRhodesia ?\n\nAnother,but happy,N.I. item. Had a letter\nyesterday from a Solr in Ballymena saying I had\nbeen left 200 quid by an aunt. I haven't seen this\naunt since I was a child and she was not a blood\nrelative - wife of my Uncle Robert (Greacen). She\nran away from him and I always understood she had\ngone to Scotland and I presumed that she was xxxxx\nprobably dead by now. She died recently\nin Belfast,it seems. Can\u2019t understand why she\nleft me any money - just as I was surprised\n(slightly) that Uncle R didn\u2019t leave me some-\nthing, however small,as I know he had been fond of\nme when I was a small child. xx I believe they say\nin Yorkshire,there's nowt as odd as fowk.(I take\nit there isn\u2019t any Income Tax on small legacies.\nDo you happen to know ? )\n\nMore books from BBN and 3 vols of poetry from\nDavid M. (one of them Gallery Press). Not a\nsausage frcm B and B. Just as well,as I've as\nmuch work as I can cope with. Feel quite tired\nthese days.\nLove to you both - Robert\n\nEnc. photo of Herta. Not a good one but\ngives some idea of my Brunhilde! Please return\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1492"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford118","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jun 5th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford118","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Herta, Peggie","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford118","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford118.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff5th June, 1974\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks for yrs.\n\nThanks for the felicitations. The sheer\nunexpectedness of the legacy makes it all\nthe more delightful. Life is so strange: we\noften get what we don't deserve and vice\nversa.\n\nThat photo of Herta,I assure you,doesn\u2019t\n'do her justice' as they say. She looks a\nlittle apprehensive. The car crash (she\nwas with'her husband) mu  have been a xxxx\npretty awful experience: waking up injured\nin hospital and being told her husband was\ndead. Anyway,the photo shows she isn\u2019t the\nEnglish conception of a busty hausfrau. You\nwill like her.\n\nThank Peggie for confirming my feeling\nthat one doesn't pay on legacies - the law\nkeeps being amended and I thought the\nbuggers might have changed it for the worse.\n\nGlad you saw Jack recently and that he's\nhappy to be xxxxx back, strikes etc. notwith-\nstanding. But how disappointing that he\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1493"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford119","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jun 5th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford119","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"The Daily Express, Hunger Strikes, Keats","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford119","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford119.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffdidn't enjoy the trip.\n\nThat's a hard-hitting piece in the EXPRESS\n- N.I. is pretty complicated. I suppose we\nhave now to expect (as these hunger-strikers\ndie) IRA, vengeance:kidnappings,bombings etc.\n\nFinally I've had details of the Keats\nCompetition,thanks tog x you and see the\nclosing date is mxxx now 19th June. Dad used\nto say,as part of his drunken monologue:\n\"Competition is the life of trade.\" So I'll\ncompete. Will despatch 3 Foxes plus \u00a33.00\nto the good Australian lady.\n\nO but that I were young again\nAnd held her in my arms!\n\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n\nEnclose card from Frieburg.\nFrieburg is the nearset German city\nto where Herta lives - Zurich is nearer \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1494"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford012","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1972 Dec 30th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford12","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Belfast","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford012","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford012.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H P M \n\n30 12 1972\n\nMy dear Derek,\nMany thanks for the letter (inc the leaflet about your career) and the parcel of R.G. letters.\nI shall write a little piece about myself, before I take the stuff to Winifred Myers.\nI hope that something will come of it! \n\nThanks for your good wishes for my expedition to North Britain. \n\nNew Year xxx greetings and love to you both \u2013\nRobert \n\nEncs include a poem from a school mag in Belfast \u2013 the school where my friend is xxxxxxxx\nsenior art master. \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1387"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford120","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jun 7th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford120","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"James Simmons, Padraic Fiacc, Michael Longley, Paul Muldoon, John Hewitt","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford120","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford120.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffCOPY of letter published in\nTHE IRISH TIMES, 7th June,1974\n\nSir,-\n\nIn \"Flight of the Earls Now Leaving\" James\nSimmons says that soon only four poets will\nremain in Northern Ireland : xxxxxxx himself\nLongley,Muldoon and Hewitt. That is sad. But\nin my reckoning there will be six,not four.\n\nI wonder whether Mr. Simmons has not\nheard of M Roy McFadden and Padraic Fiacc,\nboth of whom are still living and writing\npoetry in Belfast. With a little bit of\nluck he might be able to find some of their\nwork in the Library of the New University\nof Ulster at Coleraine.\n\nRobert Greacen\nAddress\n\nSimmons' poem discussed various contemporary\npoets who have left/still live in N.I.\n\nIt was quite entertaining in a doggerel-ish\nway,but he obvigously thinks poetry/began\nwith J.Simmons. Love to you both -\nRobert\nhe lectures at N.U.U\n3 Foxes sent to Lond. Lit. Edrs\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1495"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford121","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jun 12th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford121","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Padraic Fiacc","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford121","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford121.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff12-6-74\n\nP. P. S.\n\nHere's the Art and Studies section from\ntoday's I.T. to be going on with. As you see,\nthey carry 1 book review.\n\nThere was a follow-up to my letter by Padraic\nFiacc today. He lists various other poets\nignored by smart-alec Simmons.\n\nLove to you both - Robert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1496"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford122","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jun 12th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford122","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Latvia, I.R.A","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford122","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford122.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H P M 12 June 74\n\nreplied:14 June.\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nThanks for letter with so much news.\n\nBook review day in I.T. is Sat. though\nif a book is important/topical a notice can\nappear any day. Can buy the paper easily\n(more often than not) at Hotting Hill. Will\nsend you next Sat's review page.\n\nViva Latvia! Is that woman,Vera Snikere\n(sp ?) whom I met a few times one of the 2\npoets ? Good on you,matie! Practising my\nStrine as we shall prob be refugees in that\nsunny land eventually,as it seems the English\nare willing to let the I.R.A. take over in\nLondon. Perhaps an independent Scotland may\ntake a different line if they start marching\nthrough Glasgow or E'burgh...\n\nSaw Gerald Clarke last night. He has\nentered 3 poems for the Big Time Pome Prize\nCompetition under the name of Simon Waynfleet\n- I didn't tell him who the judge was. He\nwas a bit suspicious about the fact that the\nwinners would be announced so soon after the\ncompetition closed.\n\nEnc Roy's latest blockbuster,DIRTY LINEN;\nalso some doggerel. A lot of local allusions.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1497"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford123","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jun 12th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford123","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"The Troubles","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford123","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford123.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffThe xxxxx xx xxx>/del> kids mentioned are his xx\nown. Section 4 refers to the fact of his\n1st wife's death from cancer about a year\nafter their marriage. I never met her but\nshe was reputed to be a beautiful girl. Roy\nhas had his troubles. Not to speak of what\nthey call/used to call \"the Troubles\"- A\nfine statement,this poem,I think. He must\nhave nearly enough now for a new book.\n\nThe boughs have withered because I have\ntold them my dreams\n\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n\nRussell is the name of my late Aunts solicitor\nand HE was of course George William Russel\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1498"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford124","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jun 14th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford124","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Arts Council","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford124","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford124.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 and All That\n14. 6. 74\n\nMr. Peter Falxon,a bearded young gentleman\nfrom Dublin,came to see me yesterday. Mr.\nFallon,as you may know,runs a select though\nrather small private hotel in the Irish\ncapital where, from time to time,he entertains\ncarefully chosen guests. He admires Captain\nFox and hopes it may be possible to put the\nCaptain up before the end of the year. I\nthink the Hotel is a bit under-capitalised,\nbut he is hoping for a grant * towards running\ncosts. A serious,well informed young man,Mr\nFallon.\n\nLove to you both - Robert\n\ni.e. Arts council grant\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1499"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford125","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jun 14th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford125","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Captain Fox","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford125","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford125.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff One of the Captain's Friends\n\n14th June '74\n\nI met him at Fox's party at the Savoy,\nA velvety young man from Leatherhead,\nStamped indubitably as Produce of the Home Counties:\nHound's tooth jacket, fair moustache and wispy beard,\nPleasant in manner, essentially boring,\n\nI saw the name three months later -\nThe xxxxxx newspaper headline had caught my eye:\nNUDE GIRL DANCING AMONG COFFINS.\nSt. John Wilson, claiming to be a High Priest,\nHad organised a ritual in a family vault.\nDisturbing the dead who lay in Gothic splendour.\n\nThe jury examined the photographs\nFound by the bobbies at the high priests home.\nThese, taken in the vault, showed the nude dancer,\nA dececrated coffin,a headless corpse,a skull.\nAnd of entering catacombs in consecrated grounds.\nA witness spoke darkly of inverted xxxxxxxx triangles.\n\nThe name of Wilson's game,the prosecutor said, was xxxxxxxxx necromancy:\n\"The pretend art of revealing the future\nBy means of communication with the dead,\"\n\nThe Captain,you will agree,has some odd friends.\n\n36 etc. 15.6.74\n\nMy dear Derek\n\nMany thanks for yrs of yesterday. Yes,how right you are:Roy's\nlatest is in a new class. I've already said as much in a reply.And\nthe title,as you put it so well,is \"all-ways-apt\" - e.g. Belfast is\nor was the centre of the linen industry. And then a doggerel writer\nlikes Simmons ignores him completely.\n\nCheque from B and B and apparently books are on the way. Glad\nthe lunch went well and that an extract from yr Oscar Wilde will\nappear in July.\n\nNo doubt you have had my p.c. re Fox. Peter Fallon is enthus-\niastic but not about all of them. He would rather have a very small\ncollection of the very best,even as few as 15. I asked him if he\n\ndisliked my non-Fox poems. No,he said,but he didn't think Fox and\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1500"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford126","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jun 14th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford126","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Arts Council, The Irish Times","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford126","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford126.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffnon-Fox could be mixes. He's a very serious, bearded, somewhat\nunsmiling young man,very knowledgeable about poetry - he asked me\nto show him my books and read some of my old poems - various of\nwhich he commented on favourably. He had tried to get hold of my\nbooks in Dublin but could find little in the T.C.D. Library which\nis supposed to have,like the B.M.,every book published in Br Isles.\nI'm very glad he has turned out to be the quiet studious type and\nnot one of the glib charmers. As for booze,he said no,but did accept\na cup of black coffee. Typical Irishman,what ? He and I are both\nwriting to Longley to see if we can get a grant for the Fox. He\nhas had a grant from the (Dublin) Arts Council and hopes to get\nanother towards general expenses. The N.I. people might do something\nsince I am an Ulsterman and they gave me a Bursary. I may say that\nthere is a very good relationship over there between North and\nSouth culturally,and very few poets are committed to any one \"ism\"\nor Party. So if Longley turns down our request I don't think it will\nbe on political grounds.\n\nThis latest Fox poem is based on a newspaper report you\nmay possibly have seen. I've changed the name and the accused man\ndidn't come from Leatherhead. I chose Leatherhead because I saw the\nother day that the actor ,Macliammoir,said the most unresponsive\naudience he ever played to was in Leatherhead.'\n\nNow,something else:the matter of dedication. Are you willing\nto have the Fox volume dedicated to you ? At one time I had thought\nof asking you to share it with Robt Nye,but I think your encourage-\nment has been much greater than his; and you xx were in on it from\nthe time when the Captain was only a private joke; and you have also\nhelped with detailed criticism. Yes,I think this is your book -\nif you are willing to agree,that is.\n\nAm enclosing today's IRISH TIMES book page,a sort of a Terence\nde Vere White number,isn't it ?\n\nThat's a' the noo -\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1501"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford127","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jun 19th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford127","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Captain Fox","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford127","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford127.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff3 6 etc.\n\n19th June,74\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks yrs 17th.\n\nGlad to have yr comments on the latest\nFox. Peggie is right: \"fuzz\" it is.\n\nGood to hear you have acquired a new\nfan in the U..S. Perhaps he could start a\n\"Stanford Appreciation Club\", the SAC ,with\na monthly newsletter. All is possible over\nthere.\n\nRe dedication: 1. Roy had EVEN WITHOUT\nIRENE dedicated to him. He urged me to write\nit and nobody else. 2. You have consistently\nencouraged me to write the Fox poems and\nhelped with them one way and another. The\nonly other writer who has been encouraging,\nbut to a much lesser extent , ha a been Robt N.\nHe suggested a book of them when I'd written\nabout 3 or 4. 3. The book will circulate xxxx\nmainly in Ireland so the point about diplom-\nacy\u201d is less relevant, it probably won't\" get\nany notices in the Great Wen,in any case.\n\n4.I don't give a fuck what the literary\nboys and girls think. Pew of them know anythin;g\nabout writing. Sorry to sound truculent but\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1502"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford128","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jun 19th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford128","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Hibernia, Books and Bookmen","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford128","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford128.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffI can have respect for very,very few of them*.\n\nAll in all,then,I should say that D.S. is\nthe man. Perhaps in some way'I could xxx\nmention Robt N. By dedicating one of the poems\nto him-the one he published,perhaps, xxxxxxx\nThe main point of my enquiry was to make\nsure that you were willing to be publicly\nassociated with the Captain. Remember it,may\nput you on the police visiting list!\n\nHIB turned down that article but sent\nme the \u00a35.50 crit biog of Keith Douglas by\nway of consooation prize (for a 500 word\nreview). I think the xxxxxxx number of appear-\nances in Dublin is having an effect. The lit-\nerary world there is small and new develop-\nments are noted.\n\nOne of the books from B and B is a\ndeliciously funny satire by the (late) poet\nRandall Jarrell,\"Pictures from an Institution\".\nAppallingly bright:too much so perhaps to be\na really serious novel. It came out 20 years\nago and this is a reissue,so you may have\nread it.\n\nLoye to you both -\nRobert\n\nPlease excuse vile paper\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1503"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford129","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jun 21st","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford129","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Michael Longley, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Padraic Fiacc","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford129","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford129.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff3 6 H P M\n\n21st June,1974\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks for yrs of 20th.\n\nI had a letter from Longley saying that\nthe N.I. Arts Council will consider,at their\nnext meeting in October,a subvention towards\npubn of the Capt. Fox volume. Fallon is to\nsubmit details of costs etc. That means (as I\nthought) they are not opposed in principle to\ngiving a subsidy to a Dublin firm. Glad you\nagree about the matter of the dedication. Not\nthat it is likely to be seen on this side of\nthe Irish Sea. The dedication of yr THREE POETS\nOF THE RHYMERS' CLUB sounds fine and wd have\npleased Dr. Johnson.\n\nIt will be interesting to see how Harold\ndeals with the new situation. He wd be tempting\nProvidence to have a summer election. Mid-\nSeptember, I'd say.\n\nHad a letter from Fiacc today. He's getting\non with compliing that anthology in which he is\nkindly representing me. He\u2019s very pleased with\none of Roy\u2019s poems. Although they both live in\nBelfast,they are only acquaintances,so far as I\nknow. I haven\u2019t met him. I think he spent a few\nyears in the U.S.\n\nIf Jack is looking for a woman,tell him to\nhave a look in Germany. I was too lazy to go\nthere and just got hold of one who happened to\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1504"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford013","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Jan 3rd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford13","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"London","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford013","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford013.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffMr + Mrs Derek Stanford,\n5, Cricketfield Court,\nCricketfield Rd.,\nSEAFORD,\nSUSSEX\n\n3 Jan. 73 (Wed)\n\nLovely here, no fog. Sunshine and milder than London.\nBetter than usual I'd say... Arranged to meet Robert N,\nWillis Pickard and a friend of my youth, Maurice Lindsay.\nDonald Grant (ex-colleague) has been most helpful.\n\nLove to you both - Robt\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1388"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford130","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jun 21st","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford130","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"London, Herta","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford130","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford130.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffcome to London. Herta is coming here for a couple\nof weeks,arriving on 12th July. You might like to\nmeet her x if you are in town during that fort-\nnight.\n\n2 encs.\n\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1505"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford131","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jun 26th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford131","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Michael Longley, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, James Simmons, Roy McFadden","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford131","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford131.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 Holland Park Mews,W.11.\n\n26th June,1974\nreplied 27th June\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks yrs 24th.\n\nThe man I know at Helnemann Ednl is\nJohn St. John. He's very affable. You\nmay be surprised to know that for many xxxx\nyears he was a member of the C.P. but left\nover Hungary. Public School background.\nAs I say,he's a very easy person to get on\nwith - so good luck there....\n\nNote that you will be back,after yr\nholiday with Peggie and Jack,on 14 th July,\nso then you can come up and meet H. She\nphoned me from Germany last night - afraid\nI might be ill as I hadn't replied as xxxxx\nquickly as usual to her last letter, xxxxxxx\nI still see P but not as often - don't\nbelieve in cruel breaks.\n\nEnclose the latest communication\nfrom Longley* - I call him \"Shortly\" when I\nwrite to Roy. It will explain itself.\nPlease return. I think L is moderately\nin my favour. I don't think that he makes\nenemies in the way that, say, Simmons does.\n\nGood to hear Fred V has a book in the\n\n(* An invitation to submit poems for a for a poem series\nsponsored by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland - DS) \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1506"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford132","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jun 26th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford132","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Reactionaries","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford132","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford132.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffoffing. I,too,am pro-\"chuff-chuff\". If I\nhave another book pubd perhaps it shd be\ncalled the Reactionaries\" (\"All the\n\nreactionaries,save only he,did what they\ndid.....\")\n\nThe second best's a gay goodnight\nand quickly turn away\n\nLove to you both Robert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1507"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford133","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jun 28th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford133","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Books and Bookmen, Peggie","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford133","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford133.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 62\n\nMonday, 28th June\n\nMy dear Derek,\nAfter much prodding B+B have sent a\ncopy of the June issue. I've cut out my review\nof 2 Synge books. Here's the undilated copy - hope you\ndon't mind.\nHalf a loaf ect.\n\nYou and Peggie are in my mind today because\nof your move.\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1508"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford134","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jul 1st","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford134","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Appointment, Keats Quarterly","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford134","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford134.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H.P.M.\n\n1st July, '74\n\nMy dear Derek,\nMany thanks yrs 29th June.\nCongrats on yr appointment as consultant\neditor of \"The Keats Quarterly\". Presumably one of\nits functions will be to publish the work of the\ncompetition prize winners. The title sounds like\nwhat is put out by one of those heavily subsidised\nU.S academic quarterlies, but I note there's a bright idea\nbehind the scheme.\ncongrats too on your work for\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1509"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford135","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jul 1st","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford135","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Ballymena, Ian Paisley","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford135","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford135.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffthe Latvians. These bits + peices of literary\nwork all add up to something substantial.\nStill waiting for my \u00a3200 from those Solrs\nin Ballymena (the Paisley heartland as you probably know)\nSolicitors are always dilatory.\nThings keep ticking over. No real news here.\nI had a poetry review in the Irish Press\nxxx last Saturday, the first poetry review by me\n(any where) for a long time.\nEnc cutting revealing Libyan assistance in making trouble in\nN.I. may interest you. Love to you both - Robert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1510"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford136","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jul 8th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford136","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Peggie, R.T.E, Dublin","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford136","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford136.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 Holland Park Mews, L ond on, W.11.\n\n8 xth July, 1974\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nI assume that Peggie,Jack and you are\ndisporting yourselves at Lymington. If the\nweather is anything like London - and I expect\nIt\u2019s better still - you have nothing to complain\nabout.\n\nHad a letter a few days ago from Peter\nFallon . A friend of his is reading the Mss\nand then he,ll let me know which poems he wants.\nA very choosey young man is Peter. Fortunately\nI have respect for his judgment which is more\nthan I can say for many in the publishing biz.\nNo biz like pub biz,what ?\n\nA ring today from RTE,the TV and radio\npeople in Dublin. Could they use my \"short\nstory\" which had appeared in the DUBLIN MAG\nin seme series or other ? I said yes, they\nchecked my address and said I\u2019d get a contract.\nMind you,the DUB Mag paid not a penny in the\nfirst place. Perhaps this illustrates the text:\ncast thy bread upon the waters...\n\nNot such good news is that Mrs. Wechsler\nwill be selling 36 and moving up to the Tibetan\nCentre In the Border country (near Langholm xx\nin Dumfriesshire). She\u2019s holding out for a\nstiff price (30 grand,if you\u2019re interested ).\nShe proposes to buy a couple x of houses - one\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1511"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford137","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jul 8th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford137","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Buddhist, Dublin","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford137","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford137.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufefflarge,one small - near the Centre, and these will\nmostly be used for Buddhist activities. She\nexpects to enter the Order, as they put it, and\nbe a Buddhist nun. Now this is not exactly xxxxxxx\ncheerful news for me,as you can imagine. The one\nhopeful point is that,for various reasons she has\nexplained,it looks like being a somewhat slow\noperation. The man who rents her garage for car\nrepairs says he thinks it will take a year. On\nthe other hand,it may all happen sooner than\nthat. Anyway,he\u2019 s safe. I\u2019ve told a few friends\nthat I\u2019m in the market for accommodation. A bit\nunsettling but I expect it will work out.\n\nLetter from cousin Walter today. He\u2019s looking\nforward to meeting and laying on a lot of social\nactivities for the ed of the SHOOTING TIMES when\nhe goes to Dublin for the Horse Show - the biggest\nevent in the Dublin social calendar. Walter xxxxx\nstrikes me as being a shrewd boy - also as being\npretty extraverted. His letters are very chatty\nand lively,and he gives me the impression he\nmight work up a nice journalistic line for himself\nin the years to come. The Greacens come in various\nshapes and sizes. Like the Stanfords?\n\nHerta comes Fri evg. I\u2019ve just looked up\nher last letter to get this phrase:\"Do you\nrecognise your attraction on me ?\",f I find her\nEnglish sometimes more moving than if were formally\ncorrect. Actually,it\u2019s pretty good,esp for someone\nwho has only made a few short visits here. Nobody\ncan learn a language properly without living some\ntime in the country where it\u2019s spoken.\n\nI think that\u2019s about all. My greetings to Jack. Love to you both -\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1512"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford138","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jul 11th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford138","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Gaiety","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford138","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford138.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff\n11th July, '74\n\nMany thanks yrs.\nWill probably be teaching but think I can manage\nget off early so as to meet you at \"Gaeity\" on Wednes,\n24th July.\nHerta is going to Eng. classes, typical\nworker.....\nSo will let you know nearer the time. Will be glad to\nsee Jack again if it goes off.\nHope your holiday has been refreshing.\nLove to you both\nRobert\n\nDerek Stanford Esq,\n5 Cricketfield Court,\nCricketfield Rd.\nSeaford,\nSussex\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1513"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford139","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jul 15th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford139","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Runnymede","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford139","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford139.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff15th July,1974\n\nDear Jack,\nDerek tells me you would like to meet my German friend,\nHerta Bohler. He has suggested the 4 of us should meet\nfor lunch at the \"Gaeity\" on Wednesday 24th July. I've\njust confirmed with the place where I teach in the morning\nthat I can get away and suggest we make it, say, 12.30, as\nit's a bit easier to get a table if one is fairly early.\nBut of course you may not be able to get away early, so come\nwhatever time is conven-ient.\nHerta comes from a small town in South Germany near the Swiss\nborder. She is a widow - her husband was killed in a car crash\nabout 3 years ago - and she has 2 boys, about 10 and 13\nrespectively. I shan't say any more about her except that she\nteaches English in a school in her town, Waldshut. Hope you can make it!\n\nMy dear Derek,   \n\nHere is a copy of a letter I'm sending to Jack. It will be\nself-explanatory,I think.\n\nHerta has been here since Friday night. She's going to English\nclasses morning and afternoon. Yesterday we had a river trip\nfrom Windsor down to Runnymede. Very pleasant.\n\nValerie tells me her book has been delayed until the end of\nAugust.\n\nLove to you + Peggie\n\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1514"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford014","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Jan 30th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford14","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Gaiety","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford014","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford014.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H.P.M.\n\n30-1-73\n\nMy dear Derek,\nMany thanks for your letter.\nI'll try to investigate at the B.M. whenever I manage to get up there,\nbut I know there is no leeway for this.\nNo news which means good (?) news.\nIt would be more convienent for me to meet Robt N after my class,\nat NBL - I'll miss a bit of his reading. I had a note from him.\nYes Wednes.,Feb. 14th, at \"Gaeity\" (12.50 or so) is fine.\nLove to you both - Robert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1389"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford140","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jul 17th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford140","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Herta, Teachers","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford140","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford140.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff3 6 HP M\n\n17th July, 1974\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nThanks yrs 16th.\n\nGlad to have yr confirmation of time\nand place of meeting next Wednesday. xxxxxx\nSo whoever gets there first can bag a table.\n\nI like yr witty reference to \"the fair\n(though brunette) Herta\". To my eye she doesn't\nlook immediately \"German\" the way some people\ndo. There was a German girl in my class last\nterm whom I greeted with the words: \u201cAre you\nGerman ?\u201c A very pretty one,too,with a nice\npersonality, I may say! (And I can tell you I\nhave sampled xxxxxxx unpleasant\nTeutonic womanhood] The good ones are splendid,\nand the others fiendish.) xxxx I am happy to\ntell you that Herta and I have gradually but\nseemingly inevitably deepened our relationship.\nFor her,the attraction to me was immediate;\nbut at our first meeting we didn't talk xxxxx\ntogether for more than 5 minutes. But long\nenough for her to get my address. Then when she\ncame in January I couldn't clearly visualise\nher. You see ,when I gave her my address,I\nthought perhaps she would send me a Christmas\ncard or something like that,and she had just\nbeen one of a group of teachers-- and not one\nwho had gained my attention by comments or\nquestions. But as the Yanks say - that's the\nway the cookie crumbles.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1515"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford141","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jul 17th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford141","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"The Times, R.T.E","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford141","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford141.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffI'm advertising in THE TIMES m for accomm-\nodation. Mrs. Wechsler suggested I should bait\nthe advt with the suggestion that I'd do some\nbaby-sitting. Sort of POET WILL CHANGE NAPPIES,\nDO IRONING etc. Have just seen a place advert-\nised in THE TIMES not far from here and have\narranged to go to see it this p.m.\n\nYou're quite right to stay your hand re\nC. Wilson. Yes,indeed,he answered civilly.\nWhich is something.\n\nThe piece that RTE is b'casting is \"Search-\ning is Finding\". Had the contract and a pleas-\nant letter. *\n\nInterested In yr news from \"F.T.\" re Benn.\nGood. A thought:the'\"FT\" wd be a nice place to\nreview for. End of thought.\n\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n\n* The chapter about L.S.D\nprinted in \"Dublin Magazine\" in summer '71\nI think the editor selected a number of pieces\nfor broadcasting. A very roundabout method of having ones\nwork xxxxx broadcast...\nB.B.C. please copy.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1516"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford142","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jul 18th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford142","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Dublin, The Times","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford142","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford142.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 Holland Park Mews,\n\nW.ll.\n\n18th July, 1974\nreplied 19 July\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nI enclose a long letter received this\nmorning from Peter Fallon. I\u2019d be most grateful\nfor your comments. I\u2019ve answered his letter\nbriefly but haven\u2019t dealt with his detailed\npoints. I think x he basically likes the\nsequence and I most certainly want him to go\nahead. Sorry to land this in your lap but\nyour reactions would be greatly appreciated.\n\nAnother unspeakable outrage in London.\nThe swine have managed to injure a lot of\ntourists who have nothing whatever to do with\nIreland - including two people from Dublin\ncalled O\u2019Shea! Hanging would be too good for\nthem. Bad as it is,it may help people here to\nunderstand what has been going on in Ulster\nfor nearly 5 years \u2014 this kind of thing and\nworse happening every bloody day.\n\nLondon life - I posted an advt plus\ncheque to THE TIMES on 11th July. No reaction\nof any kind. Three phone calls have failed to\nestablish whether or not it has been received.\nThey blame it on the posts but can\u2019t even tell\nme xxx if they got it or not. The last girl said\n: \u2019\u2019You see,the enquiry has to go through three\ndepartments.\u201d Damn! damn! damn!\n\nLove to you both,\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1517"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford143","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jul 21st","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford143","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"The Irish Times, Patrick Kavanagh","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford143","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford143.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H P M\n\n21 July 74\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks yrs.\n\nYou have confirmed my own feelings about\nPeter Fallon - he gets a mention in a ''gossip\ncol\" in today's IRISH TIMES as publisher of 2\nPatrick Kavanagh Award winners - date of entry\n(for at least 20 poems) is in Sept. I may\n\npossibly xxxx enter. Yes,we must fix an after-\nnoon to go through the poems. Fine.\n\nI've had a bloody week x due to mistakes made\nby others,notably THE TIMES - 4 phone calls,\na long visit,promise to get the advt in next\nMonday. An hour ago I had a phone call from\nsomeone who said it appeared yesterday!- in the\nSits. Vac. col. It begins \"Professional\ngentleman require roon...\" I ask you! Muddle\nat Herta's hotel. Letter from Roy saying he'd\nbeen in London,posted in good time,and received\ndays after his arrival - and he hadn't my phone\nnumber. Taxis to try to keep appointments. Bloody!\n\nAnyway,I did see Roy yesterday and we had\na good chat - his wife and 2 or 3 kids are here\ntoo. Hope to see him tomorrow, though perhaps\nbriefly. He leaves Monday. The bombs haven't\nchanged him,but he tells me that his income has\n\nfor third award\nThey had lost text and cheque.\ngone down by 50% in the last xx 4 years. With\n5 children it must have been a real blow,but he\nseems to accept it philosophically.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1518"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford144","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jul 21st","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford144","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Anglo-German","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford144","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford144.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffWhat you say about Roy Jenkins and the\ndeath penalty links up with what is fundament-\nally wrong in this country. IT NO LONGER MATTERS\nWHETHER ONE IS VIOLENT,LAZY,RUDE OR INEFFICIENT.\nA sentimentally paternal and permissive society\nsays:\"Oh well,the poor dears can\u2019t help it,that\u2019s\nthe way they\u2019re made\" As you remark pseudo-\npsycholology. Naturally,the thinking then goes like\nthis \"strike down your friends as they\u2019ll xxxxxxx\nprobably try to remain friendly, anyway; and\ngrovel to your enemies.\" I\u2019ve been reading a very\ngood book:John Hander\u2019s OUR GERMAN COUSINS and\nI\u2019d like to quote what he says about Appeasement\nin the 30* s:\n\n....the roots of Appeasement lie deep: they lie\nin the English penchant for wishful-thinking,\nthey lie in English easy-goingness and toler-\nance, they lie in that insularity which for\nthe greatest part of our history has been our\ngreatest boon,but which over the past century\nhas proved,arguably,our greatest curse.\n\nThat\u2019s only one of dozens of brilliant observat-\nion on Anglo-German relations, xxx attitudes and\nhistory. I bought the book for Herta but have\nread it avidly myself.\n\nWell,that a\u2019 the noo. See you Wednes. at\n\"Gaiety\".\n\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n\nNice p.c. from Jack\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1519"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford145","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jul 27th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford145","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Arethusa, Paddington","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford145","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford145.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff3 6 H  P M\n\n27 July 1974\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nWhat an enjoyable lunch! Herta has been\nsinging your praises. I had a letter from\nJack explaining why he couldn't come and\nxxxxxxxxx apologising\n\nThe ram-in-the-thicket syndrome again at\nwork. \"Abraham looked up,and there he saw a\nram caught by its horns in a thicket. So he went\nand took the ram and offered it as a sacrifice\ninstead of his son.\" (Genesis,13-14,New Eng\nBible). Mrs. Wechsler has decided not to go\nahead with selling the house, on the strong advice\nof her son who xxx consulted a friend in the\nproperty business. She is now thinking in terms\nof next spring. Her resolve to go to the Tibetan\nCentre in Scotland remains of course\u2014 but she\nwon't go at any price,as I had feared. Now you\nknow I was moving heaven and earth to get that\nadvt into THE TIMES xxx xx xxx xxx xx xx xx and\nit was due to go in next Monday. Yesterday I\ncancelled it and arranged for a refund. I.think\nthe man behind the TIMES fiasco was my friend\nSherap,the monk,with his 5hrs daily meditation.\nI told Herta this and she fears that I may be\ndrawn into Buddhist monkhood. I told her I wpuld\nwillingly be a monk if my zzzzzz Abbot/Lama\nallowed me to have a woman,preferably German.\n\nArethusa arrives at midnight at Paddington.\n\nHave you had Joyce Cary's COCK JARVIS,an\nuncompleted novel ? What an enjoyable writer he\nwas. An Ulsterman in origin\n\nAdvice from WBY\n\nover\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1520"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford146","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jul 27th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford146","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Passionate","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford146","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford146.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNever give all the heart,for love\nWill hardly seem worth thinking of\nTo passionate women if it seem xxxxxx\nCertain.....\n\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1521"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford147","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jul 31st","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford147","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Arethusa, Hibernia","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford147","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford147.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff3 6 H P M\n\n31 xxx July, 74\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nThanks yrs 30th.\n\nI enclose another cutting of yr \"I.T.\" xxxxxx\nreview - Arethasa brought a copy over with her\nlast Saturday. She seems in good form but\nrather thin,not much of an advertisement for\nPatricia\u2019s health theories. But we get on\nsplendidly. Her meeting with Berta was a\nsuccess.\n\nI agree with what you say about my\nreprieve re 36. Just as well THE TIMES advt\ndidn\u2019t appear/despite all my efforts. The\nbest-laid plans o\u2019 mice.......and later we\u2019re\nglad they went wrong.\n\nYes,I hope you follow up your I.T. debut.\nIt and HIBERNIA are the papers in Ireland.\n\nMore books from 'B and B',thankfully not\nnovels.\n\nThe first week of Herta\u2019s visit was\nvery trying. Her hotel, suggested by the\nLinguists\u2019 Club where she was having 5 hrs\nclasses daily,was scruffy and depressing. And\npeople made all kinds of mistakes. But from\nthe time I managed to get her into a really\ngood hotel near Queensway (the Post House)\neverything improved. Our relationship has\ndeepened. Well,we shall see what the future\nholds xxxx xxxxx after my visit to xxxx\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1522"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford148","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jul 31st","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford148","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Parnell, Byron","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford148","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford148.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffWaldshut. She\u2019s a little frightened of what\nDaddy will say... that gentleman has still to\nhear of one R.G. And R.G.\u2019s retort to awkward\nGermans is simply: \u201cUlster will fight and Ulster\nwill he right!\u201d\n\nI love that Parnell quotation and can but\nreply\n\nThe Colonel went out sailing\n\"Colonel Martin\"\n\nLove to you both - -\nRobert\n\n Yes, till 12.30 at the V+A. Aug. 7th.\nGoing to the Byron Exibition there this afternoon.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1523"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford149","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Aug 3rd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford149","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Arethusa, Peggy","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford149","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford149.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff\\\n\n36 H P M\n\n3rd August,'74\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks yrs Friday.\n\nArethusa and I have had a wonderful time\ntogether. Today I went with her to her Aunt\nPeggy's near Caterham.\n\nPeggy is a very nice woman. I think I\nmarried the wrong sister,incidentally,but that\u2019s\nby the way. I enclose some details of her\ncottage in Ireland,near Patricia\u2019s house,which\nis available for letting. Would you and Peggie\nbe interested ? It\u2019s a really beautiful area -\na lot of retired English people have settled\nthere. Or you might know someone who would be\ninterested. Would you mind returning details\nand photos, as I want to show them around ? (I\ncan assure you that Peggy Hutchins is absolutely\nreliable in business dealings.)\n\nRe Cis and Gareth,and lunch on Fri,9th -\nyes,I think that\u2019s a distinct possibility. Will\ntell you definitely when we meet at V and A\nLibrary next Wednes.,7th.\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1524"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford015","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Jan 31st","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford15","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Buried Caesars","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford015","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford015.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H P M\n\n31. 1. 73\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nHad to go into town today, so I thought I'd pop into the B.M.\n\nResults: \"Etcetera\" not listed in the catalogue. \n\nGot out \"Buried Caesars\" (Chicago:Covici-McGee,1923)\nbut found the only relevant essay is the one of which you have a\nphotocopy - i.e. \"Two Suicides:Hubert Crackanthorpe and Richard\nMiddleton\". The other essays deal with Machen,Crane,J.3.Cabell\netc.\n\nIncidentally, xxxxxx\nWHO'S WHD.(b. Toronto,1886 - long list of books and mags for which\nhe has written. His last book,\"Born in a Bookshop\",appeared in\n1965.) Would you consider writing to the old boy ? If so,here's\nthe address:\n\n3749 N. Fremont St.,\nCHICAGO,\n60613\n\nI did a little job for myself, xxxx i.e. looking up my own\nsurname in the A. Who's Who,as I knew that 2 members of the family\nhad been  in it. This time only one - presumably the older member is\nnow dead. Anyway,Nan Greacen,a painter about 65 years old,gets\nquite an amount of space - lives in New York.\n\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n\nHave been corresponding with John Stewart Collis.\nDo you know his work? Perhaps \"FOLLOWING THE PLOUGH\"?\n\n'f'L-tnJCH\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1390"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford150","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Aug 9th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford150","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"The Irish Press, The Irish Times","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford150","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford150.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 Holland Park Mews, W. 11\n\n9th August,1974\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nWhat a delightful lunch meeting\ntoday! You stage-managed it to perfection\nMany thanks,too,for xxx your advice\nlater. It chimes with my own feelings\nand I shall act on it.\n\nIf you should wish to write to me\nin Germany,where I shall be until 26th,\nthe address is :\n\nPension Garni,\n789 Waldshut,\nBergstr. 45.\n\nHerta has decided,in the end,that it\nwould be more tactful for me not to stay\nat her house which is apparently 5\nminutes walk away.\n\nIf you are in touch with Valerie,\ntell her I'd like to notice your new\nvolume. Don't forget to make sure that\nIRISH PRESS and IRISH TIMES get review\ncopies.\n\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n\nHow did things go at the Jeremy Robson meeting?\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:12","Nid":"1525"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford151","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Aug 31st","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford151","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Honest Ulsterman, Denis Ireland, Frank Simmons, Frank Ormsby","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford151","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford151.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H P M\n\n31 August 1974\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nThe Dublin papers didn't arrive\nyesterday. The newsagents muttered\nsomething about 'a strike.'. As one might\nexpect. So I cdn't get an I.T.\n\nI did pick up the latest HIB. They\nprint my Keith Doyglas piece on their\nfirst review page and include me in their\nnotes on contributors: \"Ulster poet\nliving in London.\" Fair enough.\n\nLatest H.U. arrived yesterday,a\nbig 'double' issue. It contained a\nvicious attack on my friend Denis xxxxxx\nIreland's \"From the Belfast Jungle\" by\nnone other than J. Simmons - he founded\nthe H.U., as you know. Poor old Denis,\nwho was 80 recently,will be upset. He had\na hell of a job getting the book pub-\nlished and I for one think it's really\ngood - parts of it,esp his boyhood\nmemories of Belfast upper-class society,\nbrilliant. Simmons takes Hewitt and\nOrmsby (H.U. editor) to task for praising\nthe book elsewhere and tells them they\nshouldn't review every book that comes\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1526"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford152","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Aug 31st","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford152","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"James Simmons, Michael Longley, Ian Paisley, Edward Carson","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford152","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford152.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufefftheir way. Cheeky bugger. I've already\nmildly rebuked Master Simmons in the I.T.\nNow I've despatched a letter-bomb which,if\npubd,will make an enemy of him -- but I\ncdn't let his nasty review pass. (I notice\nthat he butters up Longley. I wonder why...)\n\nEnc review from HIB of de Vere White's\nlatest novel.\n\nSo South Down has adopted \"Knocker\" as\nprospective M.P. Whatever one may say about\nthe man,he's brilliant and has consistently\nsupported the Ulster Prods. Like Carson,our\ngreatest and most loved leader,he's a\n\"foreigner\" - Carson you'll recall,was a\nDublin Protestant,not an Ulsterman. But I\ndoubt whether Big Ian will like this move\nalthough he must approve it in public.\n\nNo news yet from General Walker. I see\nthat Col Stirling is also recruiting a force\nnot to use weapons but to man the power\nstations etc. Military men today realise the\nimportance of technology. At last the English\nare beginning to wake up.\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1527"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford153","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Sep 3rd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford153","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Germany, Switzerland","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford153","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford153.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 Holland Park Mews,W. 11.\n\n3rd. September, 1974\n\nDear Peggie,\n\nMany thanks for your kind letter.\nI'm glad you liked the scarf.\n\nDerek told me about your days at\nSelborne and the househunting. Sorry to\nhear of your fall and subsequent m bruises\nwhich I hope have cleared up by now. I\nfell off a bicycfe in Waldshut - xxxxxx\nbecause the saddle was too high. So I had\na bruised side but was lucky not to end\nup in the \"krankenhaus\". Apart from that,\neverything xxxx went well and I saw a lot\nof S.Germany and Switzerland.\n\nIt looks as if we are both in the\nmarket for new accommodation. Mrs. Wechs-\nler is entering a Buddhist Order (taking\nfull ordination in November) so I have to\nbe out by the end of Nov. She will\nprobably stay on here,though of course as\na nun she can be sent anywhere - to\nSamye Ling in the Border country or\nto mdia or literally anywhere - but if\nshe stays here she will have another nun\nstaying with her. She will make over the\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1528"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford154","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Sep 3rd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford154","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Pollen, Summer","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford154","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford154.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffhouse to the Order (and her otherproperty + money. A\nvery different life for a woman who was\nthe wife of 2 rich men!\n\nHope Derek's 'summer cold' is over.\nNasty. I think there wasn't as much pollen\naround this year as a year ago,all the\nsame - how I suffered from sneezing in\nJuly 1973,with discomfort every day!\n\n Not looking forward to room-hunting but\nit must be done... Hope you find that\ndream-house...\n\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1529"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford155","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Sep 5th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford155","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Characters, Flooded","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford155","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford155.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 Holland. Park Mews,London, W.ll.\n5th September, 1974\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nI think I told you I wrote a children's\nstory while in Waldshut.\n\nHeres a carbon of it. Would you be\nso kind as to make any comments or\ncriticisms that occur to you ? It's my\nfirst effort in this genre but please\ndon't be kind (or too cruel).\n\nAny similarity between the 2 main\ncharacters and living persons are is purely\ncoincidental. Ahem!\n\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n\nHope you aren't flooded in Seaford!   \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1530"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford156","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Sep 7th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford156","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Trade Union, Hibernia, Strike","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford156","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford156.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 Holland Park Mews,W.ll.\n\n7th Sept.,74\n\nMy dear xxxx Derek,\n\nHere's today's book page from I.T.\nPerhaps yr review appeared last Sat -\nthat issue didn't reach the shops thanks\nto our Trade Union friends' activities.\n\nI got a 3 pound cheque for x my\nHIBERNIA review (only 400 words) but I\nknew from Many Manning's remarks that\ncontributors were not exactly over-paid.\nStill,I despise nothing that comes in the\nform of a cheque.\n\nPrinted letter and xxxxxx xxxx\nleaflet from General Walker. Quote:\n\n\"I would like to emphasise straight away\nthat... Civil Assistance is in no way\nwhatsoever anything remotely resembling\na private army,militia or a Para-military\nbody... Any form of weapon,uniform,head-\ngear or armband is strictly taboo.\u201d The\naim is to keep the country going in case\nof a politically-motivated general strike.\nThe General refutes the smear that he is\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1531"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford157","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Sep 7th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford157","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Fascist, Hitler","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford157","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford157.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffFascist:\"Fascism is of Socialist origin\nand its psychology is typically Socialists\nHitler's Party was the National Socialist\nParty,you will recall,and Mussolini - to\nwhom the word Fascism really applied as\nit didn't to Hitler - was at first a xxxxx\nnotable Socialist leader.\n\nPeople are being 'screened' as CA\ndoesn\u2019t want to be infiltrated by\nenemies.\n\nIf you haven\u2019t done so already perhaps\nyou would write to :\n\nGen. Walter Walker,\n\n\u00a3ast Lambrook Farm,\n\nSouth Petherton,\n\nSomerset.\n\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n\nApologies for the APPALLING typing. There's a gremlin (from the Kremlin)\nin the Reading too\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1532"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford158","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Sep 9th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford158","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Notting Hill","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford158","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford158.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H P M\n\n9th Sept 74\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks yrs 6th.\n\nNo hurry for comments on story. I\nhave taken yr aavice and sent a copy off\nto Shirley, asking for comments. Perhaps\nI cd collate yrs and hers (if she is\nwilling to play) as am aware of amateur-\nism.\n\nGlad, to hear yr piece on \"Y. Book\"\nappeared in I.T. the day it was strike-\nstricken.\n\nHave been looking at a flat near\nNott Hill Gate. A colleague at West bond\nColl told me about it - she lives in the\nhouse. Don\u2019t have to decide for a few\ndays.\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1533"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford159","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Sep 12th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford159","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Captain Fox, Padraic Fiacc, The Wearing of the Black","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford159","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford159.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 Holland Park Mews, London, W.11.\n\n12th Sept,'74\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks for yrs of 7th and Ms\nwith percilled suggestions - I'm willing\nto accept most of these and thanks for\ntaking the trouble. Very much appreciated\nas I know you are so busy.\n\nHope those bloody x gales have\nabated.\n\nRoom-hunting, a far from enjoyable xxxxxxx\nactivity.\n\nRoy has OK'ed Captain Fox in his\nown ironic manner: \"FOX. Extremely well-\nwritten about the inedible consumed by\nthe ineffable...As with IRENE you have the\nguts to work at something xxxxxx longer\nthan my xxxx bus-ticket poems.. .Clutey\nGibson is the stopped gaps in my non-\nvegetarian teeth.\" (He has written a few\npoems about a boy he calls Clutey Gibson.)\n\nPadraic Fiacc writes to say his\nanthology of Ulster poems, \"The Wearing of\nthe Black\",is on the way and will I and\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1534"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford016","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Feb 9th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford16","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Book, Reviews","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford016","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford016.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H.P.M.\n\n9-2-73\n\nMy dear Derek,\nYour letter of 29 Jan arrived today. Was it in fact returned to you?\nYes, we both get plenty of space in Feb \"B+B\". Would Frank let us write\nan entire issue? I have various possible pseudonyms: Jock Mac Strap\n(\"our Scottish correspondent.\"), Sean o'Hooligan, Phillipa Butch (Womens Lib),\nHarry Horseley etc.\nGood that Crackanthorpe Ms. in being terribly typed....\nGlad you like those \"bright\" reviews. Many new books are so xxxxxxxxxxx\nconfoundedly dull/ trivial /ill-written that ones sanity can only be retained\nif they are delt with \"brightly\".\nI spent some time with Fred +\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1391"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford160","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Sep 12th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford160","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Catholic","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford160","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford160.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffyou (he mentions you by name) try to pub-\nlicise. I suggested he should write to you\nand give you details,and perhaps a proof\ncopy. He seems a reasonable sort of fellow:\nan Ulster Catholic; won the AE Prize a few\nyears ago.\n\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1535"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford161","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Sep 13th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford161","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Captain Fox","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford161","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford161.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 36     13/Sept/74\n\nreplied:14 Sept\n\nI keep forgetting to ask you but\nhow would you like the dedication to be phrased. What about:\n\"For Derek Stanford who believed in Captain Fox from the very start\".\nThere's plenty of time, so we don't need to hurry it. Think it over.\n\nLove to you both - Robert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1536"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford162","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Sep 17th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford162","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Notting Hill","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford162","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford162.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H P M\n\n17 Sept. 74\nreplied: 18 Sept 74\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks for yrs of last Sat.\n\nGood suggestion of yrs for inscription\nand I\u2019ll keep it in mind. You/I might think\nof something even brighter.\n\nNewsflash : It is reprted by usually\nreliable sources that H.G. will be moving to\n\n27 Pembridge Crescent,Notting Hill Gate,W.11.\nIn fact he has already made a number of taxi\ntrips there with secret files and documents.\nRumour has it that the house in which he will\nhave a 2 roomed furnished flat is owned by\nCaptain Fox. The phone number Is :\n\n229 4898\n\nEnd of newsflash.\n\nLetters may now be sent to the new\naddress. Will tell you later how I came to\ntake this flat.\n\nInterested in your various bits of lit-\nerary news:Brooke article and Rhymers\u2019 Club\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1537"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford163","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Sep 17th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford163","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"The Irish Times, Honest Ulsterman, Frank Ormsby, James Simmons","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford163","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford163.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo.36\n\n\"book. Yes, must think of somewhere for\n\"Derek Stanford's Nineties\" by R.G.\n\nVery pleased to accept yr invitation\nto stay a Sat night late in October,\n\nThat letter I sent to I.T. about the\nDenis Ireland review in H.U. (by Simmons)\ndidn't appear,the first one not to be\nprinted. Expect they didn!t want to give\nfree publicity to H.U. Anyway,I sent it\nto H.U. and have had a letter from editor\n(Ormsby) saying he will be very pleased\nto print it plus a reply from Simmons.\n\nBook yr ringside seat now for the fight\nbetween \"Battling Bob\u201d and \"Jim the xxx\nJoker\".\n\nYou probably saw/heard/read of the\nmurder yesterday of a Belfast judge and\na magistrate. The latter,Martin McBirney,\nwas a friend of a man I used to know very\nwell. In fact I met McBirney a few times\nduring the War - he was a young barrister\nthen. They are incredibly vicious,these\nmurderous swine.(The Judge,incidentally,\nwas a Catholic.)\n\nHope Jack got his sugar in Boulogne.\n\nAnd now,to more packing...\n\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1538"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford164","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Sep 20th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford164","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Rhymers Club","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford164","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford164.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff27 Pembridge Crescent,\nNottinghill Gate,\nW.11.\n20th Sept,'74\nreplied: 21 Sept\n\nMy dear Derek,\nMany thanks for yrs of 18th.\nWill ask B+B for \"3 poets of the rhyming club\".\nHope all goes well at Selborne - xxxxxx\nsounds very jolly.\nCould you possibly xxx let me have some\nnotes on W.B. Yeats? My class starts next Friday 29th.\nI'd be glad to have\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1539"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford165","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Sep 20th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford165","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Sorry","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford165","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford165.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffbits. Shall I ask them to buy and read Jeffares\nxxxxxxx selection.\n\nSorry this letter is such a mess. My hand is\nrather tired from packing and moving stuff.\nAlso looking forward to a meeting in late Oct.\n\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1540"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford166","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Sep 23rd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford166","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"W.B. Yeats","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford166","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford166.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff27 Pembridge Crescent\nLondon W.11\nreplied: 27 SEPT\n23-9-74\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nxxxxxx xxx xxx xx xx xx xxx\nMany thanks for the letter + 2 notebooks,\non early + late W.B.Y. respectively, with my own notes,\nthis will, I think, be sufficient. I always like to be\nover prepared when I start a new venture...\nAsked B+B for yr book + Cis said \"yes\"\n\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1541"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford167","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Sep 27th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford167","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"W.B. Yeats","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford167","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford167.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff27 PEMBRIDGE CRESCENT,\nLONDON,\nW.11\n27th Sept,'74\n\nMy dear Derek,\nYour Yeats notes were a great help.\nI spoke for 2Hrs without a stop + even\nsilenced the Southern Irish in my\naudience at Ealing this morning. Loghorrehoea\nspelling ? indeed! And have only\nstarted on W.B.Y.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1542"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford168","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Sep 27th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford168","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Books and Bookmen, Roy McFadden, Faber and Faber","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford168","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford168.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff2\n\nI am beginning to think I wrote the stuff myself!\nHorseman, pass by! \"3 Poets of the Rhymers Club\"\nhas arrived from \"B+B\" - Jolly nice - looking!\nGood lunch with it.\nMore today from Robt Harb-inson (\"HARPINGSONG\", R. McF\ncalles him)\nHis new book is called \"SONGS FROM ORIEL\". His action\nagainst Faber's has probably destroyed him. This book\ncomes from an unknown publisher (in London). Prose poems.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1543"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford169","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Sep 27th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford169","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Honest Ulsterman, Belfast","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford169","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford169.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff3\n\nOrmsby of \"H.U.\" has written to xxxx\nsay he wants to print \"Knowing + Not Knowing\".\nI think Ireland, North and South, has said \"Yes\"\nto the gallant Captain. Will England follow suit?\nOne can only hope....And Germany?....\nLove to you both,\nRobert\n\nDid I tell you my old friend Denis Ireland\ndied (aged 80) in Belfast last MONDAY?\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1544"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford017","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Feb 9th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford17","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Envy, Politicians","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford017","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford017.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffJohn in N.B.L. bar, but refused to be drawn into Grubbian controversy.\nDon't take either of them seriously.\nRead with envy, in Pulson case, of gifts to politicians. Why don't\npublishers send us cases of whisky, coffee pots etc.!?\nSee you Wednesday (14th), usual place & time.\n\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1392"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford170","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Sep 30th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford170","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Books and Bookmen, Peggie, Dubliner","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford170","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford170.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff27 Pembridge Crescent, W.11\n\n30.9.74\n\nMy dear Derek\n\nThanks letter 27th and Harbinson\ndocuments. Some publisher called\nHart (in London) is publishing his\nbook of prose poems,due shortly.\n\nI enclose the B and B slip that\ncame with your \"3 Poets...\" selection.\nThought you might like to see Gareth's\ncomment. Have read yr introduction with\ngreat pleasure and some of the poems,\nbut have yet to write the piece. Yes,\nCis has promised Valerie's Drabble.\n\nYou and Peggie seem to have enjoyed\nyourselves at Tony Rye's birthday party.\nI don't think I know or have met any of\nthe people you mention. Those foaming\nbottles sound attractive even to one xxxx\nwhose mother (but not father) was a xxxxx\nmember of the Band of Hope.\n\nThe first class at Ealing went well\nthough it was the most miserably wet day\nfor a long time. I've got a very lively\nretired Dubliner called Walter Mahon-\nSmith rooting for me - he got me the\njob,in fact,though I only knew him\nthrough correspondence. He has run xxxxx\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1545"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford171","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Sep 30th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford171","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"The Irish Times, Denis Ireland, Protestant Nationalist","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford171","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford171.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffclasses himself at Ealing and at one time was\npresident x of the Dublin Historical\nSociety;the sort of man who knows\neverybody of note in Dublin. Don't know\nhow or why he has ended up in Ealing.\nYr notes are/will be helpful.\n\nDid I tell you that my old friend\nDenis Ireland died (in Belfast) a week\nago ? He celebrated his 80th birthday\nnot long ago and he lived to read and\napprove my defence of his book against\nSimmons' attack - his last letter to me\nthanked me for x defending it- The IRISH\nTIMES gave him a long obit,with photos,\nand a 3rd leaderer. Don't know if he made\nit into THE TIMES. As a Protestant Nationalist,\nDenis swam against the stream in\nN.I. ever since he was demobbed (as\nCaptain in Royal Irish Fusiliers,\"the\nSkins\") at the end of World War I. x\n\nH.U. have taken another Fox - the\nChinese one.\n\nLove to you both\n- Robert\n\nx He was in the Senate (in Dublin) for a few years.\nIn middle age, with his white hair, he looked a bit like\nSENATOR W.B. Yeats!\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1546"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford172","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Oct 6th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford172","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Captain Fox, Ian Paisley","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford172","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford172.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffThe latest Fox. Love to you both - Robert 6th October '74\n\nWritten on the Back of a Used Envelope Found in\nCaptain Fox's Dustbin\n\nLonganimity - must cultivate it.\n\nMeniscus - a crescent-shaped figure.\n\nPaisley pattern:ornamented by cone rather like tree cone.\n\nPornocracy - undue influence of whores\n\nAs, e.g., in early 10th century Papacy.\n\n(unacceptable concept in North Antrim.)\n\nQuandong - nice sound! A small Austrailian tree.\n\nSiskin - a yellow greenish xxx finch\n\nSirop instead of syrup - Yankee usage.\n\nVine-rod - a Roman centurion's badge\n\nWhample - a sudden blow (Scots dialect.Ulster too? Ballymena?)\n\nYoicks - cry of unspeakable fox-hunters\n\nZen. Tear up your scriptures Holy books\n\nMeditate,master yourself,spew up truth.\n\nx Ian Paisley's constituency\n\nZynthum - ancient Egyption beer. The last bloody word.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1547"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford173","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Oct 10th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford173","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Northern Ireland Arts Council, Margaret Drabble, Franks Ormsby","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford173","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford173.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff27 Pembridge Crescent,x W.ll.\n\n10th October,1974\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nThanks for yrs of 8th.\n\nYes,indeed,I'd very much like to cane\non Sat 26th and stay the night. Is there a xx\ngood train arriving about mid-afternoon\n(pref one that comes direct) ? This visitcan be\nmy birthday celebration.\n\nThe Captain's dustbin and w.p.b. have\nsome nice little items/ I'd like if poss to\ndo a second Captain Fox book. We'll see how\nA GARLAND is received. There should be news\nany day now about N.I. Arts Council decision:\nto grant or not x to grant. I think Longley\nseems fairly well disposed and I take it that\nthe committee look to him,as a poet,for a\nlead. But if Big Ian hears they are dishing\nout money to a Dublin publisher,well!!\n\nStill haven't had the Drabble book from\n\"B and B\" but I wrote a notice and sent it to\nCis.  Valerie has kindly asked me to lunch\non 24th (Peggie knows the signifance of that\ndate - United Nations Day ?)\n\nThanks for yr writing to the Petersfield\nxxxxxx bookshop. Ormsby asked me to write a\npiece on Denis and I've done about 1,200. I\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1548"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford174","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Oct 10th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford174","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"R.T.E, Denis Ireland","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford174","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford174.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffsent it to him with reluctance as prob\nthe I.P. or I.T. would have taken it. Then\nI thought I\u2019d send it to RTE('Irish Televis-\nion and Radio').xxxxx I sent it to the\n\"Here + Now\" programme that used a piece of mine in the\nsummer. So something might come of xx that,\nas Denis had a national reputation. Had a\nletter today from his widow,Mary Ireland,\nand her account of his last months is very\nmoving. He married at over 50 and very\nhappily. He was very attractive to women :\npowerfully built,dignified,humorous,with\none or two touches of Captain Fox. (But\nFox is not based on him - composite,as you\nknow.) Politics nearly destroyed him.\n\nDo you know the work of one of my\ncolleagues,Jenny Joseph (we know her as\nMrs. Coles)? She has a book (of poems) xxxx\ncoming from Dent\u2019s shortly - publishes in\nENCOUNTER etc. She\u2019s pretty good. Perhaps\nyou would look out for this and tell me\nwhat you make of it. A very bright Jewish\nwoman but such a high-speed,compulsive\ntalker that it's impossible to have a\nconversation! Oddly enough,Mrs.Wechsler is\nan old friend of her mother - and that's\nhow I know that \"Mrs. Coles\" is in fact\nJenny Joseph.\n\nElection ? No comment.\n\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1549"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford175","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Oct 18th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford175","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Judge","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford175","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford175.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff27 Pembridge Crescent,\nW.11\n\n18 October,1974\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks yrs of 17th,\n\nI accept yr emendations for \"Uncle\"\nwhich was based on a newspaper report.\n\nEnclose latest letter from Roy and\na group of his poems about a character\nhe x calls Clutey Gibson. Very good\nindeed,I think,and I'd like to have yr\nopinion. Perhaps when we meet. (Re his\nletter:McBirney was the magistrate who,\nalong with a Judge,was recently assassin-\nated in Belfast. I met him a few times.\n\"Harpingsong\" is of course Robt Harbinson,\none of whose books was \"Song of Erne\".\nThat Robt is not exactly Roy's cup x of\nxx char.)\n\nI think the 1.45 train next Sat\nwd be fine,so I should arr about 3.30.\nLooking forward to seeing you both.\n\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n\nAlso enc.printed letter from       Walker\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1550"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford176","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Oct 28th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford176","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Peggie, Dubliner","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford176","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford176.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 27 P C\n\nMonday. Oct. 28,1974\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany,many thanks to xx Peggie and yr\ngood self for such a pleasant w/e.\nConversation,food,drink,walks just what\na Doctor who knew me would prescribe - not\nto speak of the anthology you gave me.\nMuch appreciated.\n\nEnclose the latest epistle from R.\nHarbinson. You will observe the usual\nname-dropping. Perhaps I shd suggest that\nhe writes another volume of autobiog\ncalled \"I KNEW THEM ALL\" or,alternatively,\n\"They All Knew ME\". Notice in the last\npar that if I know a Dubliner called\nFallon, he knows a bigger,better and\nricher Fallon! Very amusing. I think he\ncan't forget the days of poverty when he\nand his mother had to hide from the rent\ncollector.\n\nFive nice reprints of novels this\nmorning from B.B.N. inc xxxxxxxxx Masefields\nMasefield's \"Captain Margaret\" - in a xxxx\nseries called the Bow Street Library\n(Bodley Head) ed by Hugh Greene. Let's see\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1551"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford177","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Oct 28th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford177","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Graham Greene","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford177","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford177.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffhow Harbinson would handle this,if he\nwere writing to you.\n\n\"Hugh Greene - Graham's brother -\nsuggested that I should review ... When\nI was in Brazil I met Graham's cousin\nBilly Greene who,as you know,owns an\nenormous ranch....\"\n\nEnc a list of my publications up to\n'54.\n\nValerie has sent me a photo-copy of\nher Drabble letter. I'm mischievously\nsending it to R.H. to see what It will\nstimulate him to come up with.\n\nLove to Peggie + yourself - \n\nRobert\n\nthe funniest \"R\" I ever did see!\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1552"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford178","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Nov 3rd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford178","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"W.B. Yeats","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford178","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford178.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff3rd Nov.'74\n\nRune and Blade\n\nSoldiers take pride in saluting their Captain;\nWhere are the captains that govern mankind?\n\nFox stamps on our undemanding age\nPreferring whats ordained, exact\nShaped to its mould by ancient use.\nHe argues for the rule of captaincy\nThat must remain though kings depart;\nNot least affirms the magic art\nThat comes from maker's stoic trade\nAnd blesses custom, ritual, ceremony.\nUpheld by rune and lustrous blade.\n\n My dear Derek,\nThis is the revised version, headed by a quotation W.B.Y's\n\"A Full Moon in March\". I've changed \"permissive age\" to\n\"undemanding age\" - the former is a cliche really, don't you think?\nSeems to me this poem should lead off the book. Do you agree?\n\nLove too you both -\nRobert\n\nHerta has sent me 2 splendid Parker pens for my birthday.\nI think she realises that \"the maker's stoic trade\" is my obsession!\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1553"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford179","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Nov 4th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford179","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Keats Poetry Prize, Ian Paisley","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford179","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford179.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff27 P C\n\n4 Nov 74\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks yrs yestre\u2019en.\n\nI note the Keats Poetry Prize awards\nwill he announced on 4 December. In the\nprincipal newspapers ? Apart from myself,\nGerald Clarke I\u2019m sure wd like to be on\nthe look-out. A pity the go-slow has\ndelayed xx\nis.\n\nOne of the Gillespie girls,Sonia,is\nliving in Lewes - going to a teacher\ntraining college. A suitably xxxxx anti-\nPapist atmosphere for the granddaughter\nof a keen Paisleyite. I saw the Gillespies\nyesterday - the years have rather tamed\nLeslie - four children and all the problems\nattached to them, we don\u2019t argue now. He\u2019s\na very good fellow when it comes to practical\nhelp - same goes for Veronica.\nThey have given me quite a bit of bed-\nlinen for the flat.\n\nNow this may surprise you. Freddy Vine\nis heading for London and I\u2019ve agreed to\nlet me have one of my rooms. I\u2019ll keep the\nnicer one. This will ease the situation\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1554"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford018","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Feb 10th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford18","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"New Statesman, Vita Sackville-West","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford018","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford018.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 Holland Park Mews, W. 11.\n\n10th February,'73\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks for p.c.\n\nRight,let's meet then 28 Feb instead\nof next Wednesday.  (28)\n\nI've a couple of advts re Group 36\ncoming in NEW STATESMAN Personal col. Not\na paper I care for,as you know,but it\nmight rope in a few people. Mrs. Wechsler\nis quite agreeable about holding meetings\nin her sitting room,as she is usually out\non Wed evenings. We shall see what happens.\nI'll be gratefulfli if you can publicise.\nThe first meeting will depend on how soon\nI can assemble a few bods,as at the moment\nI'm a shepherd without sheep.\n\nHave providentially been sent a crit.\nstudy of V.Sackville-West which gives me\nthe opportunity to air the Dyment-V.S.-W.\naffair of the almost identical poem.\nLove to you both\n- Robert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1393"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford180","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Nov 4th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford180","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Harold Macmillan","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford180","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford180.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufefffinancially. I discussed it with Leslie and\nV who have experience of F as a guest. They\nagreed that he\u2019s very quiet and that his\neccentricities are fairly tolerable and\nharmless. Anyway,we\u2019ll see how it works out.\nHe\u2019s written me a couple of very practical\nletters. One thing F is not - and that\u2019s a\nsponger, his tendency in fact is towards a\nsomewhat silly extravagance.\n\nGlad you have fixed the S and J\ncontract.\n\nEnjoy yourselves at Cowes - thanks for\nletting me have the address.\n\nLove to you both\n- Robert\n\nI saw xxxxxxx Harold Macmillan\nbeing interviewed on TV last night. What a\ncunning old fox - and how civilised compared with Heath\n+ Wilson!\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1555"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford181","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Nov 5th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford181","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Robert Harbinson","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford181","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford181.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff2 7 P C\n\n5th Nov 74\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks for your very helpful\nletter. I took your point right away :\nthat this poem is not consonant with the\nothers. There is too much of me in it and\nnot enough of Fox (the simplistic think\nthat I am Fox,but you know I'm not and\nindeed am attracted to characteristics in\nhim precisely because I haven't them).\nI'll think your points over carefully. The\nfinal arbiter will of course be Peter\nFallon in whose judgment I have a good\ndeal of faith. I am very glad you made\nthese criticisms. But of course the poem\nis not intended to be integral to the body\nof the sequence. Might be better to scrap\nit. We'll see.\n\nRobt Harbinson (Roy's \"Harpingsong\"\n- he wrote \"Song of Erne\") writes infatig-\nably,entertainingly and as egotistically as\nhe knows how. Quote:\"When you go to stay\nwith Derek Stanford again,be sure to let\nme know so that you can come over here for\na meal.... As a bribe (not,I hope,as a\ndeterrent!) I can assure you that I still\nmake homemade wine - 'it sounds good\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1556"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford182","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Nov 5th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford182","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"I.T.V, Faber and Faber, Home-brewing, Breakdown","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford182","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford182.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff2\n\nstuff' Mr. Justice Swanwick remarked when\nCharles Monteith was explaining in the\nHigh Court that after lunch with me he still\nhad a hangover two days later... I have\nactually appeared on ITV complete with\nairlocks and syphons though my greatest\ncompliment was when.....I have a large\ncellar maturing quietly away,I have not\nseriously been drunk since a Faber party\nten years ago when Peter Crawley,the Sales\nDirector,had to call an ambulance to take\nme to University College x Hospital. Not that\n\nI wish to inflict such inebriation on you\nwhen you call... A large part of the\nattraction xxxxxxxxx for me in home-\nbrewing besides the all-important economics:\nare the countryside roamings collecting the\ningredients.\" On fiction-writing:\"... the\ngreat xxxxxxxx technical problem is not\nto invent characters or situations but how\nthe devil to deal with and finally dispose\nof them.\" How to make money as a writer:\n\n\"...if you were to succeed to some obscure\nIrish earldom and cause xx a scandal with\nlittle girl x (or little boys even better)\nthe fees would rocket well ahead of current\ninflation rates,as witness Montagu and\nLambton inter alia.\" I must say these\nletters of his would make entertaining\nreading so full are they of quips,and\ngymnastic leaps from one subject to another,\nThe Faber confrontation must have been due\nto a breakdown,an unconscious desire to\ndestroy the reputation he had built up\nwith such effort. I can't believe it was\nrationally motivated.\n\nYour and Don Roberto's letters have\ncheered me up. I slept badly because of\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1557"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford183","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Nov 5th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford183","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Sons and Lovers, The Irish Times","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford183","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford183.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff3\n\ntoothache. Not normally troubled by this\naffliction I've had quite a bit of trouble\nin the past 2 months as a result of various\nfillings. Hitherto the dentist I go to,a\nvery nice New Zealander, has been\nsplendid. I don't blame him in the\nslightest - I think like all ageing things\nthe teeth are the worse for wear. Anyway,\nback again to him this a.m. though the\npain has subsided.\n\nDespite some pain last night I\nploughed on in SONS AND LOVERS which I'm\nrereading for my Ealing boys and girls -\none is nearly 70! Again and again I found\ntears coming into my eyes. What a man!\nAnd how,unlike Yeats, sad that he went on\nto write those later diffuse novels not\nquite grounded in reality. Yet at the same\ntime what a xxxx heroic struggle - a man\ndying yet travelling,writing and quarreling\nwith intensity. The marital situation in\nSONS AND LOVERS in some respects xx was\nis\nlike that of my parents. Makes it easy to\nidentify. And I love the sparse - and all\nthe more effective - use of dialect,almost\nall of which is understandable in the\ncontext.\n\nLast Sat's IRISH TIMES had 2 letters\ndealing with mine of Oct.26 (which I\nshowed you). Ewart Milne's didn't say very\nmuch and his reference to me was polite:\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1558"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford184","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Nov 5th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford184","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"W.B. Yeats, Politics","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford184","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford184.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffxx 4\n\nhe said that at least I had taken the trouble\nto outline a position,even though he was agin\nit. The other boy,who said he was writing a\nthesis,devoted his very long letter to Yeats'\npolitical views and maintained that W.B.Y. xxx\nwas a Fascist. He quoted other parts of the\nYeats' letter to Ethel Mannin from which I\nhad drawn. Fortunately I had the volume by me,\nso I quoted still more from the Yeats-Mannin\ncorrespondence to show that even if Yeats had\nFascistic tendencies he could not properly\nbe described as a Fascist. The whole thing\nhas escalated into quite a controversy.\n\nBreaking off here for a visit to Mr.\nTim Rishworth,B.D.S. (N.Z.)... Back from\ndentist who explained the position very well.\nHe gave me the choice of a nasty business to\nget all of the nerve out or to stick it in\nthe hope teat it will settle down. Chose the\nlatter.\n\nxxxxxxxxx re politics\nTake even today with its\nrash of strikes... The aim is not to improve\nthe \"intolerable lot\" of the workers but to\nuse that excuse to create confusion,bring\nabout collapse and then have a Left-wing\ntakeover. God knows,I would like to see\n\"democracy\" work - i.e. a reasonable life\nfor everyone,regardless of class - but\nunfortunately it doesn\u2019t seem to be working.\nSupport for the Right in my case is largely\na matter of approving the bad to avoid the\nworse. And I work on the premise that man\n(including R.G.) is sinful:culpable pride etc.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1559"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford185","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Nov 5th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford185","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Judith Ward, I.R.A, Hibernia","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford185","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford185.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff5\n\nIdeologists will of course do anything\nto further their ideal. Pious and worthy\ndeclarations end in killing the innocent\nin the streets.\n\nHave you read about the incredible\ncase of Judith Ward,an English girl who\nwent to work in a riding stables in\nIreland,met IRA men and became a killer.\nBecame a Catholic,began x to adopt an\nIrish accent etc. And now has been given\n30 yrs. How there's idealism for you...\n\nApologies for the unconscionable\nlength of this epistle to the Seafordians,\n\nLove to you both\nRobert\n\nHave just had a welcome parcel from\nHIBERNIA: Stallworthy's biography of\nWilfred Owen. You have prob had this\nfrom B and B. Also a nice note saying\nthey will use \"Written on the Back of\nA Used Envelope etc.\" They have been\ngood friends to the Captain, A funny\nthing happened on the way down to\ncollect the parcel. I hurried but\nfound my 84 yr old landlord holding it\nand was surprised to hear him say:\"It's\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1560"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford186","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Nov 5th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford186","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Captain Fox","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford186","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford186.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffall right. I've got it,Captain.\" And he\nagain addressed me as \"Captain\". xxxx Is\nthe man psychic ?\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1561"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford187","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Nov 21st","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford187","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Peggie, Book","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford187","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford187.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff27 P. C.\n\n21st Nov 74\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nI hope Peggie and you have settled in\nagain at home after your Wight wanderings.\n\nI enclose a xx cutting of a review of\nyours from today's I.T. This was perhaps the\none you wanted me to be on the lookout for.\nVery interesting,too. I had expected it to\nbe on the 90\u2019s or perhaps Victorian art/lit-\nerature,but of course you can write on any-\nthing at the drop of an editorial hat!\n\nWhat is Cis playing at ? They announced\nR.G. on D.S in the Nov issue. Now I see my\nname on the Dec cover but they have printed my\npiece on Edward Blishen and a.n. other. Now\nBlishen is a contributor like yourself,so I\nwonder if he pressed to have his piece in\nfirst. You might try to find out discreetly...\nI\u2019m as disappointed as you will be.\n\nIn today\u2019s post I found a copy of \u201cSongs\nOut of Oriel\u201d signed by the author. i xx\ndidn\u2019t make any effort to get it for review\nas I didn\u2019t like the fact that he resumed\ncorrespondence (after several years'silence)\nshortly before pubn of the book. Not good\nenough,that sort of behaviour. What\u2019s your\nopinion of it? the book The local references are\n\nK *\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1562"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford188","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Nov 21st","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford188","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Ulster, Fermanagh","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford188","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford188.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffinteresting for me,especially since he\nwrites on aspects of Ulster that are xxxxxxx\nsometimes unfamiliar to me - I don\u2019t know\nFermanagh at all,the county to which he\nwas evacuated- I know respectable working-\nclass B'fast but not the slumdom he came xxx\nfrom- He\u2019s a very bright boy but just a\nwee bit more opportunistic than I can\nreadily stomach.\n\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1563"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford189","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Nov 23rd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford189","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"The Irish Times, Poetry","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford189","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford189.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff2 7 P. C.\n\n23rd November,'74\nreplied:2nd Dec\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nThanks letter (22nd) and cutting.\n\nIt\u2019s always rather pleasant to see\nsomething one wrote a long time ago popping\nup in print - I say this in reference to yr\nrecent appearance in I.T.\n\nI\u2019ve sent Harbinson a somewhat tongue-in-\ncheek paen but I wouldn't care to commit xxxxx\nmyself to praise in public. It doesn\u2019t seem to\nme to xxx be either poetry or prose and it isn\u2019t\ndramatic. Like many good writers of descriptive\nprose (which he is at his best) he is a poet\nmanque. I can see that he had a very hard time\nas child and boy,and I\u2019m sorry about that. We\nmust xxx descend on him some time to sample\nhis home-made wine which I expect is pretty good,\njudging by his efforts as a cook (these I\u2019ve\nsampled).\n\nWhat you say about Gascoyne is interesting.\nDo you think that he will write again ? Seems\nto me to be a forgotten man - I've been surprised\nthat one or two reasonably informed people had\nhardly heard of him. Such a pity to see so much\ntalent wasted. That one talent etc.,\n\nPeter Fallon and I are weary of waiting for\na decision from the Longley mob up on the North-\nern ranch. Pistol-packin\u2019 Pete has been in touch\nwith the Southern ranchers. It would be a kick up\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1564"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford019","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Feb 13th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford19","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"John Horden","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford019","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford019.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H.P.M\n\n13.2.73\n\nMy dear Derek,\nThanks yrs.\nI think our letters have crossed (have noted Feb. 28)\nYes, John Horden seems to have improved.\nWasn't as scruffy as a couple of years ago. Glad to hear ORBIS\nkeeps appearing and improving....\n\nLove to you both - Robert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1394"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford190","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Nov 23rd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford190","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Sons and Lovers, Robert Lowell","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford190","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford190.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffthe arse for Longley if we could get a subsidy from\nDublin -- you see how important it is in dealings\nwith Ireland not to be too committed one way orwthe\nother! Meanwhile Pete has brought out 3 books,\ninc 1 of his own,and has been giving readings at\nT.C.D. and xx on TV. He\u2019s written to assure me\nthat he will do everything possible to get the\nbook out. But when ?!\n\nMy class at Ealing goes happily. Have been\ndoing DHL,with a very detailed look at SONS AND\nLOVERS. Apart from about 3 young women,the rest\nare elderly - and there are only 2 men in the\nclass. There\u2019s a high percentage of proiessional\npeople so one doesn't have to say F-r-e-u-d - a\nHungarian woman doctor knows more about F-r-e-u-d\nxxxx than I do.\n\nThis week I was offered some temporary work\nby those people I worked for in Holland Park last\nspring and summer - the Tutors,Davies,Laing and\nDick who have gone into the Eng for Foreigners\nbusiness. I\u2019ve a good pal there,a bearded Right-\nwing Lancastrian who swallows beer on a Chesterton-\nian scale, x I very much like the Northern English:\nhard workers yet good fun.\n\nI see the Govt are at last to take some anti-\nIRA measures...Now the English are beginning to\nsee what my people have been enduring for the last\n5 years and at various times before '69.\n\nRobert Lowell has been reading from his work\nin Belfast (possibly because he has an Ulster wife>\nCourageous of him to go there... Latest HU out (no\nspare copy at the moment) with a lot of stuff by xx\nme,but ,alas,none of it paid for...\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n\nx 3 pints at lunchtime!\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1565"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford191","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Dec 4th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford191","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Robert Lowell, Holborn Station","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford191","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford191.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff27 Pembridge Crescent,\nW. 11.\n\n4.12.74\nreplied:6 Dec\n\nMy dear Derek,   \n\nMany thanks tor yours of 2nd.    '\n\nThere seem to he as many delays with your\nAussie lady's prize awards as with Capt. xxx Fox. \n\nGlad you have interested S and J in Gascoyne's\nJournal. So Lowell is trying,too - his wife comes\nfrom Ulster,by the way (Caroline Blackwood) and\nhas published a book of what seem to be extremely\nnasty stories.  (Perhaps there\u2019s a connection\nbetween Ulster and nastiness------I wouldn\u2019t\nknow!)\n\nGood to hear you are working on INSIDE THE\nFORTIES. Perhaps you will find a phrase in one of\nthe poets of the time to sum it up succinctly.\nHere\u2019s to your pyrotechnic displays!\n\nI finish these days near Holland Park Station\nat 1 p.m. Strand is awkward to get to but Holbornn\non the Central line is straightforward. If we ,\ncould meet at Holborn Station and eat nearby, I\nexpect I\u2019d get there by about 1.30. West London\nCollege finished on 13th but the private school\nI work at in the mornings goes on until xxx 20th.\nThe other thing to remember is that I\u2019m in\nEaling on Friday mornings (but term there ends\non 13th). As you see,I now have 3 teaching jobs\nI\u2019d suggest 23rd or 24th,unless that\u2019s too near\nthe great day for you - could be anywhere any\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1566"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford192","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Dec 4th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford192","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Michael Longley, The Irish Times, Frank Ormsby, Padraic Fiacc","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford192","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford192.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufefftime on those days. Another thing -- I may be\ncoming,to Brighton to see Robt H and perhaps you\ncould come over' (not necessarily to meet him,unless you\nwanted to). Hope all this doesn\u2019t sound a muddle.\n\nStill no news from Peter F about a NI decision\nbut he feels aggrieved\" at Longley\u2019s offhandedness.\nSo do I. Longley has a well-paid job and is right\nat the heart of the stablishment,so he doesn\u2019t give\na damn. His wife lectures at Queen\u2019s Univ,,Belfast,\nand writes poetry reviews for the IRISH TIMES. So\nIt would be dangerous for Fallon to offend him.\nThe usual poetry politics,as you see. Still,I\nseem to be gaining allies over there - Ormsby\nalways writes in a friendly way (he\u2019s just accepted\na non-Fox poem which I enclose). I also enclose\nthe latest H.U.\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n\nValerie has agreed to send you Fiacc\u2019s anthology,\ndue shortly. I\u2019ve written to Fiacc asking him to\nmake sure a copy is sent to THE TEACHER. Fiacc\nis another fellow 'who seems friendly and,like\nOrmsby,answers letters.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1567"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford193","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Dec 7th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford193","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Mall Tavern","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford193","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford193.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff27 P C\n\nSat. 7.12.74\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nFirst. Yes,I can meet you in the x Mall\nTavern next Wed (11th) at, say, 1.15. I'll make a\npoint of breaking-off mid-sentence at 1 p.m.\n\nin Holland Park and xx dashing off.... Good\nidea of yrs to link the Rammage visit with a\nmeeting.\n\nDidn\u2019t expect you\u2019d want to meet Harbinson.\nI\u2019m willing to meet him in Brighton as Brighton\nis a place I like very much and I love a few\nhours there. I\u2019ve sometimes gone to Brighton\nalone and it never fails to do me good. Perhaps\nthis tonic effect wears off for people who\nactaully live there. Had another epistle from\nthe boy today. He would 'be delighted to see me'\netc. Actually,I think he\u2019s got the law more on\nhis mind than the new book, whether this is a xxx\n\nof paranoia and folie de grandeur ,or has a\nbasis in fact,I\u2019ll try to decide when we meet.\nHe\u2019s got a thing about Hailsham,that sounds a wee\nbit like Freddy\u2019s persecution mania in years\npast. Claims that Hailsham rigs the courts. Yet\nsays that the judges \"didn\u2019t like Hailsham or me\nsince we both xxxx know some squalid aspects of\nthe majesty\" (Ref back to 'majesty of the law').\nThe letters,incidentally,are strikingly phrased.\nQuite a character.\n\nI\u2019ll chew over yr kind comments on the\nC.D. poem. What I was trying to suggest was\nwhat might have been in his mind near his death.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1568"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford194","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Dec 7th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford194","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Honest Ulsterman, Padraic Fiacc, Wilfred Owen","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford194","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford194.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffTrue,there are the other possibilities - mother,\nwife,mates. That would change the poem xx from a\nmore generalised \"A Poet Dying\" into \"Clifford\nDynent Dying\". Which might well be better. I may\nsay that the poem was written soon after his\ndeath and revised several times since. I've even\nmade a revision since I sent xxx the text to you.\nIt looks like being one that will need endless\nwork -- though what poem doesn't ? I am becoming\nmore and more perfectionist as an antidote to\nfluency, the poem-while-U-wait syndrome. For some\nyears what I was writing was too obvious,too\nliterary,too easily done. And I am being increas-\ninly captivated by the 'fascination of what's\ndifficult'.\n\nHU isn't bad for a provincial town half in xxxx\nruins. But I wonder whether the violence and\nuncertainty of life there isn't a stimulus to\nwriters,even though it creates problems for them\nin ordinary living. Fiacc's article in HIB may\ninterest you in this connection - please let me\nhave it back. They also use this week my piece on\nWilfred Owen ,with a large illustration. (Without\na 14-18 War what kind of poet wd Owen have been ?)\n\nSee you next Wed.\n\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1569"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford195","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Dec 23rd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford195","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Pacifist, Maud Gonne, Orangemen, The Twelfth of July","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford195","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford195.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff\nNo. 27\n\n23. 12. 1974\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks yrs 22nd.\n\nI was very interested to have yr reminiscence\nabout the start of the last War. Roy was more\nactive than I was in similar ways,but I was in\ncomplete agreement on the pacifist issue. But I\nwas having a semi-breakdown over Irene (my Maud\nGonne). As a result I messed up my university\ncareer which has plagued me since as top-level\nwork goes to those with good paper qualifications.\nAh well...\n\nValerie told me she would send you WEARING OF\nTHE BLACK. Much more chance of a review there\ngetting in fairly soon,though B and B is worth\ndoing. Padraic is very keen to have a reasonable\ncoverage in England.\n\nThere\u2019s a lot of symbolism in the W.O.T.B.\ncover - orange,white and green are the colours of\nthe Irish Republican tricolour. Ironic of course\nsince the Orangemen will fight to the death not\nto be in their Republic! presumably the title is a\nkind of pun on a popular Irish ballad (again\nRepublican) xxxxxxxxxx \"The Wearing o' the Green\"\nwith lines such as \"They're hangin' men and women\nfor the waerin' of the green\" in which \"they\"\nrefers to the English. Had the vote in the House\ngone differently it might have been:\"They're hangin'\nmen and women for a-placin\u2019 o' the bomb\".\n\nTHE GLORIOUS TWELFTH was written in 1943. The parenthesis under\nthe title doesn't make this\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1570"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford196","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Dec 23rd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford196","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Roy McFadden, Finaghy","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford196","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford196.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffclear - I should have asked him to place that at the.\nend of the poem. It was included in THE UNDYING DAY\nand elsewhere. The poem is in my early poem \"public\"\nstyle,as you say. It is,I hope,obvious from the text\nthat 12 July processions we re not held during the\nwar years. The last word of the poem is \"Finaghy\" -\nthis is the place just outside Belfast to which\nmarchers go,listen to speeches and have refreshments\nbefore starting the trek back.\n\nI hope my poem about Roy won\u2019t embarrass him\nwith some of his clients. Business has been declining\nand I\u2019d hate to think that he lost fees through my\nscribbling. But poetry is no more read there by the\npopulace than it is here.\n\nYou cover a wide poetic field - from Finaghy to\nRiga,as one might say. Good for you.\n\nEnclose Braybooke's HIB article. Read it with\nenjoyment. I note that the research was done by\nPeggie.\n\nGlad that Jack didn\u2019t have to drive through x a\nstorm to get to you this year.\n\nAll being well,you\u2019ll see Herta and me on 2nd\n\nJan.\n\nLove to you both -\n\nRobert\n\nSad that T.R. Hew is dead...\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1571"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford197","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Jan 2nd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford197","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Louis MacNeice, Hibernia","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford197","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford197.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 27  2/1/75\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks for your letter of 30th Jan.\n\nThe postman woke me up at 8am to deliver a\nbook (on Mac Neice) from Hibernia.\nI dashed out for THE TIMES to xxxx\nread the list of prizewinners with considerable\npleasure.....not least because Gerald Clarke figured in it.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1572"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford198","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Jan 2nd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford198","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Arethusa","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford198","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford198.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffwill look forward to discussing this +\nother matters next Wednesday.\n\nLove to you both\nRobert\n\nBy the same post I'm sending off a \u00a310 cheque\nto Arethusa. Poor child - she's been having\nmedical tests. Her health just isn't what it ought to be.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1573"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford199","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Jan 19th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford199","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Books and Bookmen, Samuel Beckett","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford199","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford199.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff27 P.C.\n19th January'75\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nHello! Have just finished what (I hope) is an\nentertaining review for B +B, of\nBeckett's \"MERCIER AND CAMIER\". I expect it will outrage\nJohn Calder.\nStill no news from N.I. Arts Council. Peter\nFallon has written, as nice as ever, and says he hopes\nto do the book with or without their grant.\nFreddy gives me some extra work, but does try to co-operate.\nHerta went back a week ago.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1574"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford002","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1970 Oct 30th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford2","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Roy McFadden","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford002","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford002.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffCOPY\n\nBIRTHDAY POEM\nFor Robert Greacen\n\nAt fifty,I suppose,you'll count the change,\nNumber your debtors and your creditors,\nAdjust accounts,write off lost loves,and put\nThe reckoning in your diary. But,or yet,\n\nYou'll also scatter starling glances over\nA set shrugged shoulder soldiering through time\nBack to a tenser time when,unbereft,\nLife was right and politics were left.\n\nRoy McFadden\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1377"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford020","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Feb 24th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford20","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Catholics, United Ireland","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford020","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford020.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H.P.M\n24 Feb 73\nreplied 27 Feb\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nI take it that you won't be coming to\ntown next Wed. Anyway,they are threatening\na London Transport close-down to. So it\nlooks as if our meeting is off. What about\n7 March,Ash Wednesday ?\n\nEnclose my TRIB notice of that book\nabout Belfast which I thought so good. I\nwd like to write a booklet on Ulster,giving\nthe facts for English readers - fairly non-\ncommital. Can't think of who wd finance it.\nWhat I had in mind was a series of quest-\nions e.g. \"Why do most Catholics xxxxx want\na united Ireland ?\" , \"Why do most Protest-\nants want to remain in the U.K. ?\" etc. But\nI don't want to write a book.,as I'm not\nprimarily interested enough in politics/\nhistory. Suggestions welcomed.\n\nHave had 7 replies to my 1st advt re\nGroup 36 and one man is definite. But next\nWednesday !! Have sent out the leaflet to a\nlot of people and am advertising,under my\nown name,in TRIB - as some of their readers\nshd have heard of me. Geo Licence is a\nfounder member,so to speak,and one or two\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1395"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford200","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Jan 19th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford200","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Peggie, Holland Park","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford200","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford200.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffShe has phoned and written since then. She\nwas very pleased to meet you and Peggie at\nSeaford - a most enjoyable visit for us both.\nHard at work - 4 hours teaching a day\n(plus preparation at home) takes it out of me.\nBut we need the xxxx money.\nWrote a new Fox poem which I'll let you see later.\n\nLove to you both -\nRobert.\n\nFinishing each day at 1pm. at Holland Park.\nI say this in case we try to arrange a lunch meeting.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:13","Nid":"1575"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford201","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Jan 21st","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford201","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Books and Bookmen, Padraic Fiacc, Michael Longley","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford201","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford201.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff27.P C.\n\n21.1.75\nreplied 23.1.75\n\nMy dear Derek ,\n\nMany thanks yrs 20 th.\n\nGood to hear auotosnap (Roy\u2019s word) is\nprogressing.\n\nB and B appearing as usual,so it must\nbe because of bad distribution that it\nisn\u2019t in the Worthing Library.\n\nAlso good to hear about yr lecture at\nMorley and the one planned for March.\n\nYes,I too had PEEPSHOW! No doubt she\nwants to peruse Fiacc anthol before sending\nit to you.\n\nBy the same post as yr letter,xxxx I\nhad a long letter from Peter Fallon. Longley\nhas written civilly, saying that he is in\nfavour of a grant and that the committee\nwill decide on 28 January. Peter gives me\ndetails of production and lay-out plans:\n\n400 in paper,100 cloth. Will bring out books\nby Kennelly ana Michael Hartnett along with\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1576"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford202","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Jan 21st","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford202","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Francis Stuart, Dubliner","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford202","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford202.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffmine. Hopes later to bring out a Pearse K\nand a Francis Stuart. That boy (Peter) is\nabout the most organised Dubliner I\u2019ve met.\nHaven\u2019t time to detail all the points he\nmakes. He never misses a trick and I\u2019m\ndelighted to have such a publisher -\nfriendly,efficient,enthusiastic.\n\nI\u2019ll prob nip over to Dublin to sign the\ncloth copies.\n\n Love to you both - Robert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1577"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford203","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Jan 27th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford203","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Chancery Lane, Faber and Faber","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford203","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford203.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 27 P.C.\n\n27. 1. 75\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks yrs 23rd.\n\nI note that competition results will be\npubd next Sat., 1 Feb.\n\nYes I can manage Wed.,5 Feb in that\nEuropa cafe nr Chancery Lane Stn, 2.30 to\n2.45.\n\nI spent most of yesterday with Robt\nHarbinson/Robin Bryans at Rottingdean\nwhere he lives in a friend's cottage. What\ntales he had to tell of F and F , and\nCharlie Monteith (who was a classmate of\nFreddy\u2019s). It\u2019s a fantastic story. Some\nof the events he proved,as he showed me\ndocuments. It\u2019s much too detailed to go\ninto here. He\u2019s now writing a book about\n\u2018the affair\u2019. He intends to tone it down\nas otherwise no publisher wd dare to bring\nit out. You will recall his famous couplets\n\nConmen and crocks\nRun Faber books.\n\nThis got him 6 days in Pentonville - but\nhe claims that it cost F and F \u00a3100,000\nto shut him up.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1578"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford204","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Jan 27th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford204","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Northern Ireland Arts Council, Francis Stuart, I.R.A, Berlin","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford204","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford204.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffN.I Arts Council meeting tomorrow\nto decide whether to grant or not to grant\nre Capt. Fox.\n\nWe had a splendid walk in and around\nRottingdean,saw the local museum with its\nmarvellous collection of Kipling books and\nletters. Wish I had had a glass-cutter\nin my pocket! R.H. chuckled at my\npredicament. Ate locally caught\npigeon at evening meal. He's a damn good\ncook,mad or not.\n\nFrancis Stuart was supposed to have\ncollaborated with the Nazis. A'liberal'\nand socialist lie,of course,though he was\nan IRA man in his youth. The fact is that\nhe was teaching in Berlin when the War xxxx\nbroke cut. A interesting case of a\nforgotten man making a come-back. Like\nBasil Bunting.\n\nLove to you both - Robert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1579"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford205","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Feb 6th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford205","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"The Irish Times","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford205","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford205.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 29    6-2-75\n\nMy dear Derek,\nHow nice to see you again!\nThe enclosed may interest you.\nPlease return some time.\nLove to you both.\n Robert\n\n(with a copy of IRISH TIMES FEB 6\n'75 giving details of RG's forthcoming\nA Garland for Captain Fox\nin a    )\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1580"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford206","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Feb 12th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford206","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Irish Arts Council, Hibernia","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford206","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford206.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 2 7\n\n12. 2. 75\n\nMy dear Derek,\nThanks yrs 8th.\nLetter this morning from Peter saying\nthe Dublin-based Arts Council will make\nup the difference. Which means that they\nmust be giving more than the North. He\nhasn't said what the printing bill is but\nI would expect that the Belfast \u00a3100 will\nonly be a fraction. He told me that costs\nhave very much increased in the last year.\nSo the Captain is xxxxxxxx under way at\nlast... (I'll tell him about yr letter\nbeing written with his pen!)\n\nMy THREE POETS review hasn't\nappeared nor has my review of xxxxx\nValerie's book although the latter was\nbilled to appear. I had B and B stuff not\nlong ago but no idea what is happening\nthere. I suppose they have too many Mss\nlying around.\n\nHIBERNIA does pay me. I think what xxxx\nyou have in mind is that about a year ago I\nthought they had stopped paying. What\nactually happened was that they sent payment\nto Inverness Terrace and the letter was\nlost in the post. All was straightened\nout. Thanks to Mary Manning whom I met\nin London following my attack on her in\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1581"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford207","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Feb 12th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford207","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"The Irish Times, The Scotsman, Faber and Faber","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford207","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford207.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffthe IRISH TIMES! Aggression will get one\nanywhere ?\n\nI sent a complete set of Fox poems to\nRobert Nye a couple of months ago. Not a\nword,despite a letter reminding him... The\nidea was that he might pick one or two for\nTHE SCOTSMAN. Is he ill/abroad ?\n\nRobt H has asked me to contact Charlie\nMonteith of Faber's . He says his friend\nLord Shackleton suggested this. I wrote to\nCharlie,enclosing R.H.'s projected preface\nto a book on the Harbinson v. Faber affair.\nHmm!\nLove to you both\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1582"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford208","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Feb 20th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford208","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Michael McLaverty, Call My Brother Back","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford208","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford208.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff 27 P.C.\n20-2-75\n\nMy dear Derek,\nI thought the enclosed letter might interest\nyou. As you see, Michael McLaverty's \"Call My\nBrother Back\" (his first novel & his best, published\n-1939) sold nearly 6,000 in the Figgis reprint.\nPlease return his letter. (The \"Academy\",is the Irish\nAcademy of Letters, founded by Yeats.)\nHerta and Mathias are coming on March 22nd.\nCharlie Monteith of Faber's\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1583"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford209","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Feb 20th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford209","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Robert Harbinson","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford209","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford209.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff\nhas replied very quickly to my letter re Harbinson,\nbut o'Brians wont't play ball (balls?) with R.H.\nNot surprised, having seen R.H.'s scurrilous \"open letter\"\non Charlie : \"He inveigles boys into his flat for criminal purposes\"\netc., etc. \"Charlies sex life is expensive\", R.H.\nsaid to me. No comment.\nLove to you both,\n  Robert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1584"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford021","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Feb 24th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford21","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Earls Court","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford021","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford021.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffother frienas are due to come. So we shall see\nhow it develops.\n\nI saw Gerard Werson (now Gerard van\nSeteren Werson) the other day. He told me\nyou had been in touch with him. He is living\nin an extremely xxxx grand house in one of\nthe better parts of Earls Court - towards xxxx\nChelsea. Is keen to be my agent.\n\nHead yr piece on Father Hopkins with\ninterest.\n\nLove to you both - \n\nBought a SANYO cassette recorder the other day.\nUseful for work with foreign students + for recording\npoems, stories etc. Portable, so one xxx can\ntake it around easily.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1396"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford210","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Feb 22nd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford210","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Harry Truman, Hibernia, Padraic Fiacc","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford210","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford210.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff\n\n22xx2.75\n\nFrom today's IRISH TIMES:\n\nCLERGYMEN IN N.I. POLITICS\nSir,-\n\nI read with sympathetic interest Dr. xxxxxx\nHanson's suggestion (February 18th) that all\nNorthern clergymen should be barred from xxxxxx\ncontesting seats for the new Convention. Yet I\ncould not but recall,so far as one partic-\nularly famous (or notorious) xxxxxx man of\nGod is concerned,the alleged remark of\nPresident Harry Truman about J.Edgar Hoover:\n\u201cI'd rather have him inside the tent peeing out\nthan outside xxx xxxx peeing in.\" - Yours,etc.\nRobert Greacen\n27 etc.,\n\nI've also a letter,rather longer,protesting\nagainst a HIBERNIA review xxxx - letter in HIB\nof course - of the Fiacc anthology. x was a\nxxxxxxxxx thoroughly nasty piece xx tof work.\nSeems to be my letters-to-the-Ed week. Managed\nto give Roy a sort of back-handed xxx puff\nin the HIB letter.\nLove to you both\nRobert\n\nThe review\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1585"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford211","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Feb 26th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford211","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Herta, Dublin","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford211","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford211.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 27 P. C.\n\n26. 2. 75\n\nreplied:27.2.75 \n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks yrs 22nd. I think it was a\nbit delayed because you wrote xxx \u201c29\u201d.\n\nHerta has injured her back in a fall on\na polished floor in her house but I hope it\nwon\u2019t upset plans. xxx She has had a lot of\npain.\n\nI think Peter skilfully/xxxxx played the South\nup against the North. What the Yanks call\n\u201cworking both sides of the street\u201d. He\u2019s clever\nand efficient.\n\nNo news about the Keats party. I\u2019m afraid\nher delays do not inspire confidence,but perhaps\nthe latest is also due to illness. If we don\u2019t meet\nthere (my class time is 4.45 - 6.45 p.m.), yes,\nthe Wed. Why not come to my flat for coffee,as\nit is, only 5 minutes' walk from N.H.G. ? I\ncould meet you somewhere at N.H.G. and conduct\nyou here.\n\nI\u2019ve never heard of A.B.(?) O\u2019Connor. What\nhas he written ?\n\nGoldsmith Press seem to be very active. I\ndon\u2019t really know the Dublin scene today,only,\nbits of it. Thanks for encs. But what l really\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1586"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford212","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Feb 26th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford212","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Times Literary Supplement, Faber and Faber","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford212","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford212.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffwant is to get some poems published in\nEngland. Can't find an opening anywhere - I\nmean,anywhere worthwhile like T.L.S. and am\nalways annoyed to see so much shit published\nby the in-boys.\n\nI enclose a document that may amuse you.\nPlease reurn after perusal. I think R.H. has\nlet xx the case become obsessive.\nHe won't get anywhere\nin Harbinson V. Faber and Hailsham.\n\nLove to you both\n\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1587"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford213","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Feb 28th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford213","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Robert Harbinson, Faber and Faber, Books and Bookmen","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford213","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford213.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 2 7 P.C.\n\n28. 2. 75\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks for yrs of 27th.\n\nYes,Harbinson's letter was fascinating. I have\na thick file of Harbinsoniana since he resumed\ncorrespondence. I would spill no tears on F and F's\nbehalf but I don't think he has a chance in hell.\nOn his own admission,he goes in for sharp practice,\nas I shall tell you when we meet.\n\nVarious agonised letters frcm Valerie about the\nnon-appearance of my review of her book in B and B.\nI phoned Cis yesterday who explained about less\nspace,topical reviews etc., and xxxxx was as pleasant\nas always. She says she hopes to get your R. Brooke,\ninto the issue dated April.\n\nHaven't seem the Marcus anthol. David has always\nbeen generous to me as a critic but right from the\nstart was reluctant to publish my poems. I never send\nhim any now but when I last wrote couldn't help but\npoint out that I had a book coming from Gallery. You\ncan\u2019t please all of the editors all of the time.\n\nX-rays show that Herta has suffered no serious\ninjury. My eagle will live to fly here as arranged,\ntogether with her eaglet. She says I am her \"golden\nlion\". The Germans and Swiss are mad keen on highly\npolished floors. Visitors beware! Is their idea to\ntrip up prowling 'golden lions'?\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1588"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford214","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Feb 28th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford214","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Francis Stuart, Germany","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford214","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford214.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffYr 0'Connor has had quite a military career. But\nwhat about his novels ? Ask him if he knows/knew:\nFrancis xxxxxxxx Stuart who has been coning to the\nfore (2nd time round) recently ? Stuart is an odd\nbod. An Ulster Prod who joined the IRA,was in Germany\nduring the last War and then went back to Ireland, and\nseems to be at odds with every group and Party there\nis. But an interesting writer.both as novelist and\npoet.\n\nHeavy cold developed yestre'en but I've been\nworking as usual. Lucky in this respect as my last\none - a cold to end all colds - was around New xxxx\nYear 74.\n\nRight,as you suggest,let's wait for a meeting\nuntil March 10 (assuming this is really on).\n\nThe enclosed may interest you. Would you mind\nreturning it ?\n\nLove to you both -\n\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1589"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford215","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Mar 3rd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford215","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Robert Harbinson","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford215","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford215.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff2 7 P. C\n\n3. 3. 75\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nxxxxxxx Here\u2019s a photocopy of the latest Harbinson.\nIt speaks for itself. Please return. I know you will\nkeep this information to yourself. If it leaked out,I\nwouldn't get any more!\n\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1590"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford216","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Mar 6th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford216","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Centaur Books, Publisher","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford216","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford216.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 2 7 P.C.\n\n6th March, 1976\n\nreplied:8 Mar.\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks for yrs of 4th.\n\nI am glad Peggie and you had a good\nholiday w/e in Chichester. Interested to\nhave yr hews of Jon W-T. Yes, I've been\nwondering why we don't see Centaur Books\nthese days. I suppose he has private means\nhe can live on.\n\nI've sent the article on the Greacens\nto Nan G (Mrs. Faure) in the U.S. and a\ncopy to Walter. If the Yankee cousins want\nit extended I'll be happy to oblige but I'll\ndo mo more work on it unless there is a\nproposal to print or something of the kind,\nas I can't spare the time. If nothing like that\nis suggested, I'll get a few copies made and\ndistrubute to known relatives.\n\nR.H. v. F and F. The trouble with R.H.\nis that he neither puts all the cards on the\ntable or wholly conceals them. Bits of the\njigsaw,to change the metaphor,are missing. He\nchanges the emphasis from one point to another.\nMy impression is that he is partially round the\nbend. We shall see what we shall see,but it\nseems to me that his career as a writer may be\nover. What publisher would touch him now ?\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1591"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford217","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Mar 6th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford217","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Herta, B.B.C, New Statesman","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford217","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford217.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffYr Mrs. Cash hasn't ccme up with the cash.\nGerald Clarke xxxxxxx keeps asking me if she has\ngot it and I can only answer \"don't know\". Again,\nwe shall see what we shall see.\n\nA more immediate problem is Freddie - \"Vine\nby name and vine by nature\" as he once called\nhimself in our early acquaintance 35 years ago.\n\nHe is a medical/psychiatric case,I think. Drunk\nmost evenings,on the dole,making practically no\neffort to find work and walking around London\ndoing nothing day after day. He honours financial\nobligations and causes me no positive trouble,But\nthere's always the possibility of his causing\nmischief to himself or my flat when in his cups.\nI don't want him to go and I don't want him to\nstay unless he does something about it. Waiting\nfor an opportunity for a bit of plain speaking...\n\nHerta writes that she still has back pains\nbut they have eased a bit. She had a bad cold at\nthe time of the fall so that didn't help. But she\nis a woman who can endure much and has endured\nmuch. She's due here on Sat., 22nd.\n\nMy cold cleared up fairly quickly - just 2\ndays' real nastiness.\nlook after yourself.Love to both - Robert\n\nPleased to hear on B.B.C. news just now of 20 yr\nsentence on killer of policeman. These thugs only\nunderstand tough punishment. Our Judges obviously\ndon't read the NEW STATESMAN.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1592"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford218","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Mar 7th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford218","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"MacNeice","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford218","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford218.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff7/3/75 My dear Derek, The inc.\nmay interest you, not least for the\nnote on R.G. Please return\nLove to you both Robert\n\nMr. Brown, in this useful\ncritical study, rightly insists\nthat \u201c'in political as well as in\nmetaphysical and religious\nmatters, his scepticism was\nfundamental.\u201d This unwilling-\nness to commit himself to an\nideology, religion or indeed\ncountry, is the theme with\nwhich Mr. Brown concerns\nhimself.\n\nInsofar as he made a stand,\nit was for the humanities.\n\u201cAn impresario of the ancient\nGreeks\" \u2014 as MacNeice de-\nscribed himself \u2014 the poet\nargued the case for a certain\nminimum of human decency\nwhich, disillusioned and some-\ntimes cynical as he was, he be-\nlieved could yet be salvaged\nfrom the coming disintegra-\ntion of Western Europe. In\none of his best lyrics, \u201cThe\nSunlight on the Garden\", he\nspoke of the disastrous imme-\ndiate future:\n\n\u201cAutumn Journal\u201d. This poem\nalso illustrates his mastery of\nthe poetic Higher Journaiom:\nyet the operative word is\n\u201cpoetic\", for in spite of its\nslanginess and inverted cliches\n\u2014remember his \u201cHomage to\nCliches\"?\u2014the journal must be\nread essentially as the work of\na highly civilised man under-\ngoing great personal stress It\nreveals, too, his accent on form\nwhich came presumably from\nthe influence of neo-Drydenism\nand Graeco-Roman classicism,\nthough sometimes behind the\nelegant facade one glimpses the\nromantic, spontaneous on the\nhighest level and slapdash on\nthe lowest. This stylistic un-\nevenness led a war-time critic,\nFrancis Scarfe, to conclude\nthat MacNeice was \"not single-\nminded, and for that reason\nwill provide a successor neither\nto Eliot nor Dryden.\u201d\n\nMr. Brown discusses at some\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1593"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford219","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Mar 10th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford219","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Peggie, Presbyterian, The Times","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford219","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford219.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff10.3.75\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nDelighted to see you and Peggie this evening. Many thanks\nfor your letter; otherwise I wouldn't have known. Why I didn't\nhear about the meeting is mysterious (1) she has already written\nto me here and (2) letters to the old address are being forwarded,\nthough these are rare (one came the other day - the Income Tax\nsaid they would sue me for non-payment and I replied to the effect\nthat I would pay as soon as I was informed how much I had to pay!)\n\nGetting back to this evening - at the end yr Mrs. Cash said\nshe would be sending out cheques soon,so it wasn't necessary for\nme to raise the topic. She's a bit of a xxxxx prima domna-ish,\nCovent Garden (music not fruit) type,solidly manufactured in the\nAntipodes where women are women and not scarecrows. I had a few\ncheery words with that scatty Eddie Linden. Fred Vanson and wife\nseem nice people,but I can't honestly say I was impressed by Fred's\npoem. Only heard a few poems at the end - the one I DID like was by\nTony Bowers whom I chatted to and liked personally. He said he had\nwritten better ones but didn't know- where to send 'em. Another\nmystery is why Gerald Clarke wasn't there as I can't imagine his\nrefusing. He will be very disappointed as he gets few chances to\n\"mingle with the mighty\".\n\nHow dxd the lunch with Fraser Harrison go ?\n\nFreddy had a very sober weekend but I've a hunch that he's out\nhitting the high spots in N.H.G. this evening. I think he is a\nlittle afraid of my Presbyterian self-righteousness. His own xxxxxx\nbackground - non-conformist parents from South Shields - was also\nrather sober. I don't think his old man ever touched the stuff: a\nsherry at Christmas kind of thing. Perhaps the Cornish grandfather\nwas another cup of mead or whatevr they x swill down in the Duchy.\n\nSince I came back had a phone call from Herta who says her\nback is much,much better. The advt in THE TIMES didn't draw a xxxx\nsingle reply. \u00a39 down the drain.\n\nJack looked well and I was sorry he had to rush off.\n\na rather nice hand-coloured engraving the other day,\nin Ealing (where I go every Friday morning). It was engraved for\nP.T.O\n\nin Ealing (where I go every Friday morning)\u2022\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1594"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford022","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Mar 1st","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford22","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Tribune","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford022","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford022.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 Holland Park Mews,W.11.\n\nMarch 1, 1973\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nThanks for yr letter and confirming\nMarch 7.\n\nGroup 36 got off the ground yesterday\ndespite strikes,Uncle Tom Gasman and all.\nI assembled 6 very different bods,none\nof whcm was either shy or too talkative.\nThe cassette recorder came in useful -\nI recorded some stuff in advance. Enquir-\nies are still coming in,and there are the\nTRIB adverts still to appear. One of\nthem remarked what a pleasant atmosphere\nthere was - very different from a class-\nroom. Mrs. Wechsler not only agrees to\nthe use of her sitting room but is int-\nerested in the success of the venture.\n\nOther news when we meet.\n\nLove to you both-\nRobert\n\nAnother leaflet enc. incase other students are interested. \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1397"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford220","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Mar 10th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford220","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Acton, Arethusa","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford220","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford220.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff\"Harrison\u2019s History of London\" and is called xxxxxx \"View of\nActon from the South West\" ,showing a rather sombre line of\nbushes and trees,and but, a pleasing skyscape. I saw it week after\nweek in an art shop and at last went in an bought it,for just\nunder \u00a320.\n\nHad a jubilant letter from Arethusa a few days ago. She has\npassed her driving test after several attempts. This will be\nvery useful to her as they are about 5 miles from the nearest\nsmall town,Bantry,and need to go xxx shopping frequently. Alex\nComfort told me that his wife Ruth got a tremendous lift out of\ngetting her driving licence in middle-age and it meant a lot to\nher subsequent life sans Alex. xxx And you know how exact xxxx xx\nand matter-of-fact Alex-is.\nLove to you both\nRobert\n\nWrote a new Fox the other day, but have to revise it.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1595"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford221","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Mar 13th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford221","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Captain Fox","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford221","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford221.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff27 P. C.\n\n13th March, ' 75\nreplied:15th Mar\n\nMy dear Derek.\n\nMany thanks yrs 12th.\n\nI'm glad you liked my reading of the Pox poem. I feel that\nthe least a public speaker can do is to be heard. Mumblers waste\neverybody's time.\n\nGerald Clarke,whom I saw last night,is bitterly disappointed\nnot to have been invited... I said \"Cheer up,you'll soon'be\ngetting your \u00a325.\"\n\nF has a job interview next Tuesday. L. Gillespie prophesies\nthat F will never work again. I'm not sure,as he was in a worse\nstate years ago in London,then went to Geneva and held down good\njobs for several years. I think his schizoid tendencies go in\ncycles,so that after a 2 year holiday he may be ready for another\nwork spell.\n\n2 more Foxes - copies enc.\n\nHave just had a strange book present from my friend in San F\n- \"The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima\"by an Englishman called\nScott-Stokes. Seems interesting'.'  *\n\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1596"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford222","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Mar 18th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford222","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"L.S. Lowry, Japan","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford222","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford222.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 27\n\n18. 3. 75\nreplied: 20. Mar\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks for yrs of 15th.\n\nNo cheque from Mrs. Cash as yet.\n\nGlad to hear your lecture in Bedford went off\nwell.\n\nThe reason the Captain is my age is that it\nsaves calculations and the possibility of\nmistakes with dates. I established his age in a\npoem written some time ago (\u201cNotes Towards the\nFox Biography\"):\u201cBorn in Cologne,1920,father a\nSergeant-Maj or/Serving in the British Army of\nOccupation\". xxxx I hope to document his life\nas fully as any character in English poetry - not\nthat there are many \"characters\".\n\nI think \"laughingly\" should be changed,as you\nsuggest,and I'll think about the other emendations.\n\nAs you say,framing is expensive - the last\npicture I had framed cost about \u00a35 (Sherap's\nBuddha). The print was already framed,and the\n\u00a319 was for the print and frame - really an\nengraving which had been hand-coloured. Now I have\na flat I've more space for pictures and I'd like to\nacquire a few really good ones. I very much like some\nof L.S.Lowry. Sometimes one can pick up a\nsigned print of his.\n\nYes,the Mishima tells an odd story. Japan I\nfind an oddly fascinating country xxxxxxxxxx\nboth in its gentleness and barbarity. I hope they\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1597"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford223","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Mar 18th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford223","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Leftist, Japan, Geneva","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford223","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford223.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffwon\u2019t become too Westernised. A letter from a\nformer Japanese student of mine tells me\nthe economic crisis is biting deeply - as ours\nprobably will witin the next year. He writes:\n\"We have radical Leftist movements (generally\nit is called .'Red Army' movements in Japan. Last\nyear,the headquarters of our company had been\ndamaged by the bomb attack by leftists. The\nattack was for the headquarters of Mitsubishi\nHeavy Industries,but our headquarters which was\nsituated opposite side to the MHI headquarters\nhad serious damage. Many acquaintances of mine\nhad been injured with the broken glass ...\nOur order awarded is unexpectedly low and the\nfactories in Itami works are very quiet. We may\nhave a kind of lay-off in the near future.\"\n\nF applied for a job as a telephonist,as he\nfound it impossible to get a translator-\ninterpreter's job (he didn\u2019t try very hard). Had\nan interview and tests this a.m. The French\ntests were laughably easy - he x said the\nexaminer was smiling as he answered various\nquestions and translated from and into French.\nSo he\u2019s been accepted for training,though that\nwon\u2019t start for some time. Better than nothing\nbut not the job for an Honours graduate with\nlong experience of high-level work involving\n4 or 5 languages. He\u2019s staying in London rather\nthan going back to Geneva as he hopes his woman\nfriend will eventually join him here - she's a\nsmall-town girl with little education and\nwouldn't take to the idea of living on the Con-\ntinent. x>/del> He says he intends to give up\ndrinking and has been on the wagon for a few\ndays.\n\nHerta and Mathias due on Sat evg. Are you\nlikely to be in town next week ? If so,perhaps\nwe could meet. Mall Tavern wd be a good meeting\n\nplace if you are selling books at Miss R's.\nLove to you both- Robert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1598"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford224","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford224","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Irish Arts Council, Modernist, Abstract","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford224","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford224.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffSat. No. 27 P.C.\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nThanks for yrs of Thurs.\n\nI can meet you in the Mall Tavern next Wed (26th) at\nabout l.10 - I finish at 1 p.m. at the private school\nin Holland Park where I work in the mornings. If you care to\nand have time you can cone back and see my flat,and have\na snack.\n\nNo cheque from Mrs. Cash. I think Fred Vanson said\nsomething that suggested she was a bit short of the ready.\nCan\u2019t remember exactly what he said.\n\nF has been off the booze lately except for last night.\nWork is what he needs,not merely for the money but simply\nto occupy his time and keep him out of mischief. The\nPuritans were right.\n\nThe Irish Arts Council (i.e. Dublin-based) have\ndecided to give Literary Bursaries,x - 3 will be awarded each\nyear and an annual sum of \u00a36,000 - \u00a38,000 has been set\naside for the purpose. One will go to a writer in the\nIrish language. I\u2019m sending for details but won't apply\nthis year. \"Writer\" in this context means \"creative\nwriter\" and the money can be used for travel/research etc.\nI also hear there are Fellowships at the Univs of Glasgow\nDundee and E'burgh that may be vacant in the summer\nand I've written to the respective Profs of Eng for\ninformation on the advice of the Scottish Arts Council.\n\nPeter has written tc tell me about arrangements for\ndesign of the book. This will be done by a well-known\nDublin artist (also a writer - has published poetry and\nart criticism) called Michael Kane, a man in his xxxxx\n40's. I've seen some of his work - modernist and abstract\nwith a touch of naturalism. Peter says he wants the book\nto be as striking as possible.\n\nHope to see you next xxxx Wed. Love to you both -Robert\n\n x in the past they have given subventions to publishers for specific\nbooks.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1599"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford225","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Apr 3rd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford225","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Scottish Poetry: Irish Arts Council, Belfast Art Gallery, John Hewitt","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford225","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford225.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 2 7 P. C.\n\n3rd April,1975\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks yrs of lst. SCOTTISH POETRY 7 is just\nwhat I want. Will return it later.\n\nMrs. Cash writes to say payment will he delayed.\n\nSent off my application for Southern Irish Arts\nCouncil Bursary. I enclose a leaflet xgiving some details.\nThere was a lengthy questionnaire that covered 7 foolscap\npages and I sent 3 photocopied texts of \"A Garland...\"\nOne Bursary is earmarked for an Irish language writer\nso that means strong competition for 2 from poets/\nnovelists/dramatists. I don't think I've much of a\nchance but might as well try. They might keep me in mind\nfor a future occasion. I buttered them up in various ways\n- pointing out how there was Northern-Southern\nco-operation in subsidising \"A Garland...\" etc. What\nsort of literary politicking goes on over this I\nwouldn't know about,but I know that in Belfast jobs\nsometimes went to an English applicant because a\ncommittee couldn't agree on a local candidate. John\nHewitt was assistant curator of the Belfast Art Gallery\nbut was turned down for the job of Curator (given to an\nEnglishman). Hewitt turned the tables on them by being\nappointed Curator of the Coventry Art Gallery. This was\nparticularly ironical since Hewitt is a keen local\npatriot! (Now retired,he's back in Belfast.)\n\nA very cold Easter but I take it you had snow (none\nhere). Bloody nuisance.\n\nFrederic Vanson has sent me his Welsh-published\nbooklet. Much better work in it than in otner publicat-\nions he has sent me. For me,his work is a bit spoiled by\nxxxxxxxxxx an occasional poeticism and Georgianism.\n\nBut he's obviously got talent. He also strikes me as\n\nx please return\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1600"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford226","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Apr 3rd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford226","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Dublin","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford226","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford226.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffbeing both amiable and sincere.\n\nI\u2019ve given yr name and Peter Fallon's as referees\nfor Dublin,but don't expect they will bother you with\nan inquiry. They explain that they want 2 people who can\ntestify to the candidate's literary ability and\nachievement, and say something about his projected work.\nLove to both\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1601"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford227","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Apr 4th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford227","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Michael Longley","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford227","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford227.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffco-operating with your artistic partner.\n\nI have pleasure in enclosing a cheque for\n\u00a350 in payment for your services.\n\nYours sincerely,\nMichael Longley\nAssistant director/Literature & Traditional Arts\n\nNo.27 P.C. 4th April, '75.\n\nMy dear Derek,\nThe above will be self-explanatory. I sent\nsome poems, on invitation, last June. they are all on Fox,\nbut he dosen't say which one he has chosen or who the artist is\nor if it has been printed yet. I expected \u00a320, say, not \u00a350.\nLove to you both - Robert \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1602"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford228","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Apr 14th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford228","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Captain Fox","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford228","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford228.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 27 P.C.\n\n14 April 75\nreplied 19 Apr\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks yrs 6th. I note the letter\nhas taken 8 days. I suppose the postmen would\nsay we are lucky that it has arrived at all.\nA letter from Dundee took 10 days to arrive.\nPerhaps the policy is deliberate - hold\nback second class mail so much that in\ndesperation people will turn to 1st class.\n\nGlad to hear xxxx about your NBL talk.\nGood.\n\nYes,I note yr idea about Capt x.Fox-\nOrlan Fox. Perhaps. I think I\u2019d like to keep\nthe Fox poems fictitious and not linked with\nreal persons. But your idea is well worth\nthinking over.\n\nBad news this a.m. My landlady writes\nthat owing to the large increase in rates and\noverheads she wants \u00a39 more monthly. I\u2019llxxxxxx\nconsult with the tenant in the flat below (who\ntold me about the house). I expect there's\nnothing I can do about it. The Rent Tribunal\nwould probably uphold her decision and,if I\nwent to them she would apply 'the rules' pretty\nridgidly xin future\n\nHerta can\u2019t find accommodation. Rents\nfor furnished flats run from \u00a330 upwards,and\nshe's as well-off in the Hotel near me as\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1603"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford229","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Apr 14th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford229","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Psychiatric","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford229","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford229.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffpaying an exorbitant rent and probably living\nfurther away. Now that F has gone, she can use\nmy kitchen and bring Mathias here for meals.\nConvenient for us all. So Freddy's fall (from\ngrace ?) down the stairs has been providential.\nMathias goes today to what school ? - the FOX\nSchool of course. God knows how he will fare.\nNo lover of school,he's optimistic enough to\nthink that different will be better...\n\nHave had dreadful back trouble. Ironically\nthis has,I think,been caused by Herta's over-\nvigorous massage when I complained of backache.\nNo end to one\u2019s troubles,is there ? Please\nexcuse note of self-pity but I\u2019ve had a lot of\npain and am walking with some difficulty.\n\nWhat I\u2019m not complaining about is Herta.\nA really wonderful woman. The best ever.\n\nRe John Horder and Kay Dick. Sorry to hear\nof their difficulties but am not surprised. A\npity they can\u2019t have really good psychiatric\ntreatment ,though perhaps even that wouldn\u2019t\nhelp. I think more and more that people like\nthis are what they are because of their\nunwillingness/inability xx to see that others\nalso suffer. They are prisoners n their own\nself-centered world-- crying to be let out but\nafraid to come out.\n\nI wonder if you feel that the present\ncrisis is the worst the country has faced since\n1940. But where is the will to conquer ? Where\nis the man who encapsulates the spirit of\nindomitability ? Enoch Powell ?\n\nLove to you both - Robert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1604"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford023","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Mar 2nd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford23","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Gunman, Maria Maguire","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford023","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford023.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H P M\nMarch 2,1973\nMy dear Derek,\nMany thanks letter and yr comments on the idea of an Ulster pamphlet. I don\u2019t think I would want to be associated with any place that was politically committed such as those you mention. This may seem strange as I write for TRIB \u2013 and have just received another book from them (by that treacherous little bitch Maria Maguire \u2013 turning on your friends, even if they are gunmen, is hardly admirable, especially when one makes a packet out of it). No, what I am hoping to do is just to set down the FACTS,as I do not identify with any group in the struggle. The only group is unreservedly support is \u2013 GROUP 36.\nAnyway,always glad to have yr suggestions.\nMy school master friend who was recuperating in Yorkshire is spending a week in London. Had dinner with him last night \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1398"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford230","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Apr 22nd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford230","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Faber and Faber","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford230","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford230.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff2 7 P. C.\n\n22 nd April,\nreplied : 25th Apl,\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nYr very interesting letter of 19th has\njust arrived - 3 days in post.\n\nDr. G.K. seems as strange as they come,\none of the surviving'Characters'. Has he\never had a job or is he of independent\nmeans ?\n\nFready went quietly. He isn\u2019t a fighter.\nToo passive,in fact. He was getting drunk\nregularly,a fact noticed by the landlady.\nThe last time he was drunk he fell down a\nflight of stairs and cut his head. I got\nhim up to bed with some difficulty,not to\nsay danger to life and limb. Next day the\nlandlady wrote to say he had to go and I\ndidn\u2019t exactly try hard to get her to give\nhim another chance. Actually,I did get her\nto let him stay one more night. He\u2019s now\nwith the Gillespies. He took my advice and\nwent to AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) for help.\nWhen I saw him a few days ago he had been\noff the booze for about 10 days and already\nlooked a lot better. It all depends on\nwhether he wants to destroy himself - or\nnot.\n\nCharles Monteith of Faber\u2019s (vice\nchairman - or \"chairman of vice\" has Terence\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1605"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford231","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Apr 22nd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford231","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Dundee, Herta, Germany","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford231","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford231.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff\nwould have said) gave me a splendid\nlunch in a Greek restaurant. He's always\nbeen very nice to me though not partic-\nularly helpful. He was a classmate of\nFreddy's - shook his head at the news.\nAs for Robt H , he would only say that\nRK had given him years of trouble. I made\nit plain that I was in no position to\njudge as between them. Charles M is an\nultra-respectable ,establishment figure.\nBelfast boy makes it into the establish-\nment and determined not to put a foot\nwrong. A Snow figure.\n\nUp to Dundee on 8th May and giving a\ntalk the next xxx day. Prof Craik and a\nlecturer called Dr. Spear have been very\npleasant on paper. Should be a pleasant\nexperience even if there's no issue.\n\nYou should see the prices Herta is\nbeing asked for the most awful holes in\nW.11. and area. As for good flats,they\ncome at about \u00a330 upwards per week. One\nagent asked her to pay \u00a3100 deposit against\ndamage,\u00a335 agency,fee,and of course a month\nin advance at \u00a335 p.w. and to agree to stay for\n3 months. If she hadn't a bit of money this\nLondon trip would be out of the question\nof course,though she isn't a person who\nlikes throwing money away (she remembers\nthe years in Germany just after '45).\nRelations between us could not be better.\nShe quickly abandoned the back rubbing\nand is always very concerned to do what\nis best for me. Mathias loves his school-\nI thoughtxxxx that school would be THE PROBLEM!\n\nLove to you both - Robert\n\nP.S. Sorry to be pessimistic but I think the country\nis set on a disaster course. The left are determined to smash\nthe system as we know it. Who will stop them?\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1606"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford232","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Apr 29th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford232","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Padraic Fiacc, Roy McFadden, Herta","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford232","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford232.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff27 Pembridge Crescent,\n\nW.ll.\n\n29 April 75\nreplied:2 May\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nI\u2019ve seldom had a more dreadful letter x\nthan the enclosed (from Padraic Fiacc). He\nsounds hysterical. I\u2019ve advised him to get\nout and stay out. His wife left him not so\nlong ago,but I know nothing of his\ncircumstances or character. Anyway,I\nthought you might be interested in seeing\nwhat he has to say. Roy McF could give a\nmore objective view.\n\nHerta has found accommodation in\nKensington - Phillimore Gdns. This is\nmore satisfactory than staying in a Hotel.\nThings are well for her,myself and my\n'son' Mathias.\n\nLove to you both - Robert\n\nx\"H.V.\" enclosed   x please return Fiacc letter\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1607"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford233","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Apr 30th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford233","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Dundee, Goethe","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford233","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford233.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff2 7 P C\n\n30 Apr 75\nreplied:2nd May\n\nMy bear Derek,\n\nThanks yrs of 28 Apr. Quick\ndelivery.\n\nI'm calling my Dundee talk - \"The\nEvolution of a Writer\"- my literary\ninfluences and examples of my own work.\nI'm leading in with a poem by Goethe\ntrans by Hamburger and ending with a\ntiny poem by Macdiarmid \u2014 not that\nthese were 'influences' but because they\nare apt.(Goethe is disputing the idea\nthat a writer can be 'self-made'.)\n\nDear old Harold Brooks,one of the\nnicest men I've met,and all the better\nfor his eccentricities! I've only seen\nhim a few times in London. I've the\nimpression his wife didn't want his old\npals around. He was a lecturer at\nQueen's,by the way,not a Prof. -- and\nI don't think he ever got a chair. x The\nactual Prof at Queens was a man far his\ninferior in every way - but not eccent-\nric. That's the way it goes. Harold is\nabsolutely right about LG. Even over F\nthis has been exemplified,but it's\ntiresome to go into detail about. Right\nat Birkbeck\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1608"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford234","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Apr 30th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford234","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Christian, British, Herta","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford234","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford234.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffabout Gallen,too.\n\nYou seem to have had a jolly time. I've\nheard you talk at various times about Rob\nInglis. Triumph of hope over experience,\nwhat:\n\nI shall say nothing about politics.\nIt's all too sickening,but everything that\nhappens reaffirms my belief in the Christian\nanalysis. The British deserve catastrophe,\nand,even if that proposition is questioned,\ndisaster is what we are heading for.\n\nAnd on that cheerful note I must end...\nDespite the national/international situation\nI hope you and Peggie are as well as I am.\nLove to you both - Robert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1609"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford235","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 May 6th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford235","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Francis Stuart, Dundee, The Tempest","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford235","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford235.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 2 7 P. C.\n\n6 May 75\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nThis is just to thank you for yrs of\n2nd and to wish you and Peggie godspeed\nxx for your journeys.\n\nI read Francis Stuart\u2019s last novel\nwhich seemed to me brilliant and awful\nin turn. He is fascinating - an Ulster\nProtestant who did all the wrong things\naccording to received wisdom of the tribe'.\nTouch of genius there,but as mad as they\ncome. Peter Fallon may be publishing his\npoems. No word from that boy, by the way.\n\nHope Dundee won\u2019t be as cold as\nLondon which is appalling for early May.\nOr perhaps I grow old and need to unroll\nmy trouser bottoms. . .\n\nH and I went to see Paul Schofield in\nTHE TEMPEST. He\u2019s good but not good enough\nfor that terribly demanding part. An actor\nof great presence but I thought his voice\nwas a bit muffled. The minor parts,some of\nthem,splendidly played. I was feeling a bit\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1610"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford236","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 May 6th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford236","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Booze","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford236","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford236.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff\nunder the weather that daybut came out (figurat-\nively) leaping through the air. Have always,\nloved that play.\n\nHere endeth the 1st lesson of 6\n(cruellest month) May.\n\nLove to you both - Robert\n\nFreddie still off the booze\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1611"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford237","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 May 11th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford237","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Dundee","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford237","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford237.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff27 Pembridge Crescent\nW11 3DS\n\n11th Mat 1975\nreplied: 14 May\n\nMy dear Derek,\nJust back from Dundee.\nThis is to tell you the proofs of \"A garland\" were\nwaiting for me. Very clear proofs, I must say.\nThe edition will be listed for 700 copies of which\n180 will be clothbound and signed by me. Paperback\ncopies will selll at 60p and clothbound at \u00a31.50.\nThought you might like to have\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1612"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford238","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 May 11th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford238","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Love","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford238","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford238.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffthese details.\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1613"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford239","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 May 22nd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford239","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Competition","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford239","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford239.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff27 P. C.\n\n22 May 1975\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nI must tell you that Gerald Clarke\nand I have sent an ultimatum to Mrs. Cash.\nWe want the cash or we shall be forced etc.\nGerald has been suspicious for some time,\nespecially since his letters have not been\nanswered nor was he invited to the party.\n\nI feel responsible for his having entered\nthe competition in the first place. Mrs.\nCash's last letter to me was somewhat\ndisingenuous. \"Some of the \u00a325 prize xxxx\nwinners have received their cheques...\"\nThen,in the next sentence,I am told that I\nmay have to wait \"a few weeks or even\nmonths\". But on what basis have some been\npaid ? Because they made a fuss ? Because\nthey have blue eyes ? Surely it would have\nbeen a better idea to have sent everyone\na payment on A/C ,if only to show goodwill.\nOr,more honest still,to have x returned\nMss and fees if she xx knew that she\nhadN't enough money in hand to pay prize-\nwinners. I am sure you will agree that this\nkind of behaviour isn't good enough, I\nexpect that insistence on payment for work\n\nx cancelled the competition\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1614"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford024","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Mar 2nd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford24","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Belfast College of Education","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford024","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford024.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffand he\u2019s pressed me to have a repeat performance this evening,as he has invited someone I know. He\u2019s a delightful man \u2013 former head of the History dept at Belfast Coll of Education \u2013 an intellecual in the best sense.\nSee you next Wed (7th) \u2013\nLove to both \u2013\nRobert \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1399"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford240","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 May 22nd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford240","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Arethusa, Peggie","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford240","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford240.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffdone has meant virtually an end to my xxxx\nwriting in B and B. So be it. Now Peter\nFallen hasn't offered to pay me anything,\nexcept in copies. That's quite different,\nas I know the position from the start. xxx\nAnyway, I hope Mrs. Cash will pay\nGerald ana me, and end this unpleasant\nbusiness. Needless to say,I didn't mention\nyour name and of course you have nothing\nwhatever to do with the business side.\n\nArethusa has gone to take up a job\nin a nature cure clinic run by an Indian\nin Frinton-on-Sea. Or at least she hopes\nshe will be sort of person wanted and that\non her side she will find her employer\nsatisfactory. It doesn't seem much of a job\nfor an intelligent girl but It seems\nbetter to do even that than hang round\nBantry Bay with a crowd of old people.\n\nHope all is well with Peggie and\nyou. I've been most impressed by the\nStuart novel. He obviously brought a lot of\nhis troubles on his own head, but what a\nsuperb piece of work he's made of it all.\nLove to you both - Robert\n\nHerta flourishing\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1615"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford241","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 May 26th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford241","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Captain Fox, Dublin","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford241","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford241.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 27\n\n26 May 75\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nHave just had a long phone call from Peter\nFallon. Sunday,8th June is publication date of\nA GARLAND FOR CAPTAIN FOX and he wants me to read xxx\nfrom it (along with Kennelly and Hartnett) at\nT.C.D. I\u2019ve agreed to this. I had expected that,\nlike most publishers,there would be delay after xxxxx\ndelay.\n\nI\u2019ll sign copies when I\u2019m over there and we'll\ngo through the review list.\n\nI wish you and Peggie could be at the reading.\nPerhaps at some other one a bit nearer the Sussex\nDowns.\n\nSo,you see,what began as a private joke between\nus has changed, changed utterly into something quite\ndifferent. I vowed when I left Dublin,in 1948,after\na vicious attack,that I wouldn't return until they\nasked me to go back. Now I shall go - willingly.\nLove to you both.\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1616"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford242","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 May 28th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford242","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Mall Tavern","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford242","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford242.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff\n27 P.C.\n28 May 75\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks for yrs 25th.\nI note all the various points.\nAll interesting.\nFirst - Wednesday, 4 June in Mall tavern is O.K.\nSee you about 1.10 (I finish at 1.00 at Holland Park\nwhere I teach from 11.00)\nYes, let me have the xxxxx 90's leaflet.\nAs you say an awkward time xx for me....\nhard luck about Robt N's dealings with the Trotsky xx\naccountant.\nWent to Frinton-on-Sea last Sat\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1617"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford243","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 May 28th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford243","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Francis Stuart","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford243","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford243.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffto see A, on a bleak, dark, cold, wet day.\nFrinton is just as you say. The Indian \"doctor\"\nhad gone off for a week to Texas to lecture.\nHe has a large well furnished home. xxx\nwith a fine garden. He believes in fasting and is agin\ncurry, flesh, alcohol, smoking, tea and coffee.\nMust rush. Will look forward to hearing more next Wednesday.\n\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n\nGoing with Ealing class on Sat to Ayot St. Lawrence.\nDelightful letter from Francis Stuart to whom I wrote\nabout his new novel! He asked me to look him up in Dublin.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1618"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford244","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Jun 9th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford244","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Gallery Press","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford244","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford244.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffthe Gallery Press\n\nPeter Fallon, 19, Oakdown Road, Dublin, 14\nTelephone 985161\n\n9/6.75\n replied 12 June '75\n\nMy dear Derek,\nThe reading last night went well.\nHere's a 1st copy. I'll let you have a signed\nBOUND copy later. Excuse\nhaste\nLove to you both\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1619"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford245","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Jun 13th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford245","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Captain Fox","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford245","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford245.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 27\n\n13. 6. 75\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nThanks yrs Thurs.\n\nGlad you like the appearance of\nthe Captain. I think it's better to hold\nyour / copy until we meet - the bound vol\nlooks even better - -as the Post Office xxx\n\nmight dent or crease it. I xxxxxx hardly\nxxxx ever get a book , however well\npacked,that hasn't been slightly damaged\nin some way or other.\n\nI took to Francis xxxxx Stuart\non sight - saw him before we met,as I\nrecognised him among the audience, A\ndelightful man; obviously resolute x under\na very quiet,gentle manner. Humorous,too.\n\nMet the designer of the jacket,Michael\nKane,and liked him,but he didn't attempt\nto explain the design,so yr guess is as\ngood  as mine!\n\nI may say I did NOT like Kennelly. A fat bellied,\ntoo-clever-by-half Irish peasant.\n\n/bound\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1620"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford246","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Jun 13th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford246","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Frank O'Connor, Arethusa","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford246","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford246.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffGlad to hear of your champagne\nquaffing at C.C. The name is Connor?\nI thought I heard you say O\u2019Connor? My\nmistake. It wouldn't he at all helpful\nfor a novelist to be called O\u2019Connor\nbecause of Frank O\u2019Connor (a short story\ngenius and mediocre novelist,as you know).\n\nHave heard from Shirley and answered\nsome of her questions re poetry.\n\nSorry to hear that yr house-hunting in\nArundel hasn\u2019t worked out. It will, one day.\n\nArethusa came here a couple of days\nago. Don\u2019t know her plans as yet.\n\nWorking in the heat no joke. Never\nlike hot weather in London. Quite a\ndifferent matter at the seside.\n\nLove to you both - Robert\n\nsent a 2nd letter to Madame Cash.\nNot a whisper of a reply......\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1621"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford247","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Jun 16th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford247","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"W.B. Yeats","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford247","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford247.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff27 P.C.\n16-6-75\nreplied:19th June\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nThanks yrs 15th. Quick delivery!\nYes, fine - \"Mall Tavern\" as near 1.15 p.m. as I can\nmanage on Wed. week, 25 June.\nSorry to hear of June Braybrookes' illness +\nsubsequent cancellation of your cat-sitting visit.\nInterested to hear \"TIME WINDS DOWN\" is being used as\nan academic excercise. I hadn't the xxx\nWBY refrain in mind at all when I wrote \"Time Winds Down\"\ndespite the fact that I like Yeat's refrains. Unconcious\n??????? I think\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1622"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford248","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Jun 16th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford248","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Robert Nye","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford248","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford248.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffeveryone should grasp the idea of time running out\nand the possibility of Fox's assassisnation. I dont\nmind an occasional echo of WBY (in TSE say)\nbut I try to keep clear of too - obvious literariness.\nDelightful if brief congrats on Fox from Robert Nye.\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1623"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford249","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Jun 21st","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford249","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Catholics, Famine","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford249","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford249.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff27 Pembridge Cres.,W.ll\n\n21.6.75\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nThanks yrs 19th.\n\nEight,let1s say 2.45 to xxxx 3.00 at\nEuropa Cafe near C.Lane. 1 cd leave\nshortly after 4.00 for my class.\n\nO'Connor an unusual name for a\nProtestant but there are exceptions of\ncourse. Sometimes these are what the\nIrish call \"Soupers\" i.e. descendants of\nCatholics who changed their religion\nbecause they were given food during the\nFamine years. A derisive term of course.\n\nSo,next Wednes(25th),all be ing well,\nat Europa.\nLove to you both\nRobert\n\nWill bring you Fox\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1624"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford025","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Mar 14th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford25","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Communist, Greece","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford025","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford025.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 h p m\n14.3.73\n\nMy dear Derek,\nThanks for picture card of Damas.\nSorry to hear gas dispute has hit City Lit. Fotunately my activities have not been affected \u2013 so far. I feel very sorry for people affected by the train strike cum go-slow. It\u2019s sort of a war of nerves, neither a strike nor normal working. You can guess what elements are behind it. There\u2019s a Commie at my branch who keeps handing out leaflets, organising meetings etc. \u2013 ostensibly to help his fellow-teachers. I wonder\u2026It would be interesting to know what Brigadier Kitson and similar military men are planning. If the Commies don\u2019t bring it off eventually , the Army will probably be forced to take over as in Greece. Looks as if \u2018democracy\u2019 is on the way out. But that is in the long-term.\nGroup 36 is flourishing. People who are interested in doing something do it, despite the obstacles. I am hoping that some of the \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1400"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford250","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Jun 30th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford250","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Captain Fox, Hibernia","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford250","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford250.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 2 7 P. C.\n\n30th June,1975\n\nreplied: 3 July\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMuch enjoyed our meeting.\n\nI enclose a non-Fox poem which I wrote\nfor reasons I'll tell you about later.\n\nWhat do you think ? (\"Dandered\" is Scots\nand Ulster dialect for \"strolled\".)\n\nI've also written a new Fox called xxxx\n\"Beside the Shalimar\" and will send you a\ncopy when revised. The Captain in India,as\nyou might suppose. He gets around,doesn't\nhe ?\n\nHope all goes well.\n\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n\nJust recieved a good book from \"Hibernia\"\n- Philip Callow: \"Son and Lover - The young Lawrence\"\n(Bodley Head)\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:14","Nid":"1625"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford251","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Jul 1st","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford251","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Paranoia, Ulster","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford251","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford251.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 2 7 P. C.\n\n1 July 75\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks yrs 27 June (arrived\nthis morning) \u2022\n\nSorry to hear about death of Jack's\nmother. I expect there will he some relief\n(as well as grief) in it for him. And\nperhaps he will take up with one of the\nmusical ladies. It seems that so long as a\nman can stand on his xxxxxx feet (and I\nmean it literally) some woman will make a\nplay for him. You see,I think poor Freddy's\nwoman has got xxxxxx alarmed that he\nsometimes can\u2019t stand on his feet and\nfalls down flights of stairs.\n\nYes,Robert xx II has all the signs of\nclassical paranoia. A pity he wants to\ndestroy himself as a writer,as he has a\nlot of talent. He wrote a couple of\nsplendid hooks about growing up in Ulster.\n\nI wonder if Valerie will say yes.\nHope the Cowes plan works out.\n\nLove to you both - Robert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1626"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford252","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Jul 5th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford252","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Francis Stuart, Irish Arts Council","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford252","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford252.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff27 P. C.\n\n5th July, 1975\nreplied 11th July.\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nThanks for your letter,news and close\ncriticism of \"A Child in Hospital\". I'll keep\nPeggy's suggestion in mind.\n\nEnc the latest xx\nin which you will read of Francis Stuart's\naward by the Arts Council of the Republic.\n(Conor Farrington is Brian F\u2019s brother.) You will\nremember that I entered this Bursary contest,\nbut I suppose practice makes perfect.\n\nIPC lunch seems interesting - also that\nyou have had renewal of this contact after so\nmany xxxxx years.\n\nHave seen a very healthy-looking and sober\nFreddy today. He\u2019s doing a second translation job\n(from Italian) and it looks as if he might\nbuild up something for himself in this line.\nHe\u2019s had buckets of experience in Geneva and\nelsewhere.\n\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1627"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford253","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Jul 12th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford253","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Captain Fox","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford253","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford253.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff12 Sunray Avenue\nSurbiton, Surrey\nKT5 9RB\n12th July 1975\n\nMy dear Derek,\nI had a very good meeting with robert last\nweek and he gave me 'A Garland for Captain fox'\nI think it a remarkably generous and friendly work.\nFox is a vivid character and his friendship with\nRobert is as genuine as all Robert's real-life\nfriendships. I must\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1628"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford254","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Jul 12th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford254","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Peggie","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford254","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford254.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff2\n\nWrite a eulogy here and now about my old friend,\nso warm and friendly and not as mysterious as\nthe captain.\nIf I ask for Derek he says triumphanty that he\nhas just seen you in person here in London. Why,\nyou must be Captain Fox or he is a part of you.\nRobert had you in mind. I hear it is still possible\nthat you and Peggy may move to Petersfield, a lovely\nplace AND only a few miles (about 30) from\nour new house:\n18 Firgrove Crescent\nHilsea, Portsmouth\nWe are moving in on August\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1629"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford255","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Jul 12th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford255","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Portsmouth","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford255","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford255.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff3\n4th. It is quite a large house with typical Portsmouth\nbow windows and the garden backs on to the old ramparts\nof Portsea Island, looking towards Cosham and the cliffs\nof Portsdown Hill.\nEveryday the boys and I will cross the city to Southsea\nwhere I am the new Head of English at St.Johns College.\nIt is a splendid job all to do with literature and on\nthe staff of the English department are Mrs Jean Evans,\nMrs Daphne Plumstead, Miss Elizabeth Amphlett and a\nMr. Hamilton. I went to a farewell dinner last night\nfor my predecessor, a deeply emotional and kindly Welshman\nRalph Lewis. He and his\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1630"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford256","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Jul 12th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford256","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Peggie, Saint John's","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford256","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford256.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff\n4\nwife have done everything they can to make Tina\nand I welcome\nSo I am returning to the poets with great joy\nand thanksgiving for so much good fortune.\nI shall often think of you when I look out at the\nIsle of Wight as I know you and Peggy are often\nthere.\nI now have exactly 3 weeks more in London. Will\nyou be up during that time and may we have a meeting\n- perhaps at TEMPLE station as before?\nLet me know a day and time as we must discuss our\nfuture strategies for meeting by the sea or on the island\nin the domains of Alfred and neville or at St.Johns where\nI hope to invite you to speak.\n\nRegards to Peggy, Paul\nYours\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1631"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford257","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Jul 13th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford257","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Moghuls, Fitzrovia","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford257","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford257.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff27  P. C.\n\n13th July, '75\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nThanks for yrs of last Friday.\n\nI appreciate yr comments on the\nlatest Fox. It was written as a result of\nsomething i read and then garnished x\nown observations. \"Over-stated gardens\"\nmeans that the gardens of the Moghuls\nwere,by English standards,over-elaborate\nand extravagant in design. Will also\nbear in mind Peggie's comment.\n\nGood to hear of your regal Greek\nrepast in Fitzrovia. Stuffed VINE leaves,\nTurkish coffee and brandy are just the\nkind of food and drink that appeal x to\nCapt. Fox.\n\nI have the impression that these days\nyou are living the High Life (Cafe Loyal\nnext) whereas I live a life of near-\nmonastic austerity. W'ell,sort of.\n\nI wrote very nicely to Valerie. Ho\nreply. So something is going wrong some-\nwhere. Editor of BBN enclosed note with\nthe last parcel to say she was having\nFox reviewed and that the had found the\npoems \"very interesting.\"\n\nLove to you both - Robert\n\nF.Vine continues to give me trouble>/sup>\n\n,L CL ' '/Co 1 c^r\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1632"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford258","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Jul 16th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford258","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Holland Park","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford258","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford258.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff27 P. Cres.\n\n16th July 75\nreplied 17 July\n\nMy dear Derek\n\nThanks letter of 14th.\n\nYr students obviously appreciate\nyr efforts.\n\nHave noted news from Valerie. I\nthink it would be better for you not to\nask editors for it as it places you in an\nembarrassing position.\n\nSorry to hear of yr visits to the\ndoctor. Hope all is well. I have quite\na let of aches,pains, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx\n and minor (?) complaints from time\nto time. When one finishes another starts\n- I don't count morning catarrh,a life-\nlong friend. Age,I suppose.\n\nTerm at ILEA finished 27 June,but\nI carry on at Park School (private) which\ndoesn't close. I finish there at 1 p.m.\ndaily\n - near Holland Park Station,as you .know.\nLast week and this some afternoons have\nbeen taken up with lectures to Ger\nteachers for Educ Interchange,but next\nweek( 21 - 25 ) is quite free in after-\nnoons. Would you like to come here,to\nHo. 27 ? Or I can meet you where you\nlike. Europa or elsewhere.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1633"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford259","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Jul 16th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford259","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Camden Town, Psychiatrist","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford259","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford259.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff2\n\ni expect, xx I'll be going to\nWaldshut (via Zurich) 1st or 2nd Sept\nfor a short time.\n\nFreddie now lives in a hostel in\nCamden Town. It seems to me that he will n\ngradually deteriorate and end up in a\n\"Home\" or something of the sort. I doubt\nif a psychiatrist could do anything with\nhim,partly because of his age. F's\nbrother,a consultant,will probably be\nable to arrange something when the time\ncomes. You will be amused to know; that\nLeslie G seems to have banned me from\nhis household - F goes there to eat\noccasionally and says L is in a filthy\ntemper much of the time,not least because\nhis latest novel has been rejected a\nnumber of times. Such is life.\n\nLet me know when/where we can\nmeet.\n\nMy cousin Walter is coming to\nLondon next week.\n\nLove to you and Peggie\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1634"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford026","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Mar 14th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford26","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"The Magician of Lublin","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford026","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford026.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffpresent members will rope in their friends, as advertising costs bar profit.\nHave been enjoying Isaac Bashevis Singer\u2019s THE MAGICIAN OF LUBLIN, trans from the Yiddish. Full of verve,Jewish humour and pathos. Do you know anything about Singer ? Don\u2019t see his name in any reference book I have. (Apparently an Isaac Merritt Singer patented the sewing machine that bears his name. )\nAvoid Br Rail like the plague\u2026\nLove to you both \u2013\nRobert \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1401"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford260","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Jul 18th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford260","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Ulsterman","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford260","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford260.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff27 P C\n\n18 July 75\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks ys yesterday. I see\nthat it arrived in 1 day being 1st\nclass. (I think the P.C. don't give\na damn about 2nd class stuff and I\nread that most people send letters\n2nd now. When we write about dates it\nmay be safer to give in to the buggers\nand send by 1st xxxxx class.)\n\nYES. Wednes., 23 July at Europa,\nfrom 3 onwards. Fine.\n\nNote what you x say about FV. Yes,\nyou may be right about a recovery. Of\ncourse he's 15 yrs older,rather over-\nweight now and shows  xxxxx years -\nwalks like quite an elderly man - has\nvery slow physical and mental reactions.\nVery sad.\n\nAs for LG, I think he\u2019s a case of\nsheer disappointment. He's a hard\ntryer,a real Ulsterman in that respect,\nbut he always seems to aim at\nunrealisable goals. And he won't take\nadvice which he construes as one-up-\nmanship and malice. Sad in a different\nkind of way. You\u2019re right - he can\u2019t\ntake middle-age and just keeps cursing\nit. Which doesn\u2019t help.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1635"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford261","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Jul 18th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford261","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Reading","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford261","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford261.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff2\n\nH and I are going to see Shirley Toulson\ntomorrow - she's to meet us at Reading.\n\nVarious other topics - but they can\nwait till next Wednesday.\n\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1636"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford262","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Oct 4th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford262","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Denis Ireland, Nationalism","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford262","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford262.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff\n\n27 Pembridge Crescent, W.11\n\nFri\n4 Oct 75\nreplied:8th oct\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nDeny thanks yrs of yesterday. I'm glad\nyou think the review seems suitable. The\nbook is well produced and I hope it sells\nwell. I was particularly interested in\nreading Davidson, He could have been a\ngreat poet IF. . .\n\nYes,it\u2019s hard to believe Denis I has\ngone. He was the sort whom one believed\nwould always be there. And what a pity he\nspent his energies on politics in that\n\"fool-driven land\". Yeats was so right\nbasically to eschew politics. (Writing about\nit in a distanced way is another cup of\nIrish coffee.) Do you know which book of\nDenis Ireland's you saw FROM THE IRISH\nSHORE perhaps ? Let me know what it is,as\nI may already have it. The only difficulty\nI had with Denis is that I rated him highly\nas a literary man and as the literary man\nhe could have been. His politicking didn\u2019t\nreally interest me - some sort of mish-mash\nof nationalism and Social Credit. As you\nsay, I must write something about him some\ntime. (He's mentioned briefly in IRENE)\n\nI knew you wd hit it off with the\naffable Johnny St. J. The results of yr\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1637"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford263","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Oct 4th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford263","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"W.H. Auden, John Betjeman, Alex Comfort, Laurence Durrell, Margaret Drabble","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford263","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford263.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffmeeting seem promising. Tell me when we\nmeet, So he found Patricia 'formidable' .\nI can only echo yr own comment:\"Who indeed\nhas not!\"\n\nI am awaiting the names of the 43\nfortunate poets with some interest. The\ngolden hoys.\n\nAuden,W.K. (disqualified)\nxxxxxx\nBetjeman,John (l.b.w.)*\nComfort,A. (entered \"The Sexiad\")\nDurrell,L (\"Alexandrine Quartet\")\nEtc. etc.\n\nCopy of the Drabble from Valeriex,\ninscribed :\"To Robert,with love and thanks\nfor much encouragement.\" Haven't had it yet\nfrom B and B despite promises.\n\nhill post this tomorrow after looking at\nI.T. to see if you have a piece there.\n\n(5th Oct-nothing by you) Glad to see us both\nin B+B.\n\nLove to you both - Robert\n\n*lately bloody wet\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1638"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford264","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1976 Jun 23rd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford264","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Texas, Poetry Dimension","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford264","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford264.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 2 7 P. C.\n\n23. 6. 76\n\nreplied: 25/6/76\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks yrs 19y th.\n\nGlad to hear of yr sale via Mr \"Finkelstein\"\nof the ms of \"Inside the 40's\" to Texas.\nNice work. Another Jewish bookseller gent,\nto wit, Bernard Stone,seems to have run into\ndifficulties and (a wee bird tells me) may be\nclosing down. The slump is truly upon us.\n\nI'll be glad to have the reaction of the BRUM\nPOST to yr suggestion re R.G. I could do with\nmore reviewing.\n\nGood,too,about the 2 lectures at Dorking.\n\nI was at Cassell's party last Monday given to launch\nAllan Prior's latest novel, \"Affair\". Allan is\nnow plump and prosperous,not the thin,hopeful\naircraftman of the War years. I'm very amused\nto find little bits of sophistication in his\nrecent novels - cigars,foreign food,expert-\nise about expensive cars etc. But I'll say\nthis for him - he's worked damn hard for his\nsuccess.\n\nDannie Abse has sent me a proof of a Fox he's\ntaken for his next POETRY DIMENSION (\"Capt.\nFox on J. Edgar Hoover\" from A Garland). I\nthink this is issue No. 4 (I remember\nreviewing No. 2 about 18 months ago.) Again,\nI'm pleased to see Capt. Fox making same\nheadway in England or,as the Yanks say,\nLondon,England.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1639"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford265","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Feb 14th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford265","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"London Blitz, Bardic","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford265","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford265.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffI sent Wrey a copy of \"A Garland\" ana a photo-\ncopy of \"Writing Through the London Blitz\". Not a\nword,hut that's hardly surprising. I also gave\nhim the address of an old friend of mine in S.F.\nwho will certainly give him hospitality.\n\nThe bardic evening went well and we're having\nanother on 1st July. The group I assembled\nhit it off well together,and made criticisms of\neach other's poems that were sensible but lacking\nin any sort of umpleasantness. (I told each one\nin advance I wouldn't stand for any bitchiness,\nthough they cd be as critical as they liked.)\n\nIf it continues like this,we might do a ILucie-\nSmith. I've thought of a group name: Poetry\nShowcase. We shall see.\n\naboot\n\nAnd that seems to be about xxx a' the noo...\n\nexcept to say that I'll be sweating it out this\nsummer in Lunnon and going to Krautland  near\nthe end of August. Herta is due to arrive here\non 8th August,for a fortnight.\n\nLive to you both - Robert\n\nDuring the summer I'll be doing a 10 a.m.-l p.m.\nxxxxxx stint,Monday to Friday,at the Park School\nin Holland Park. I get slightly less than half\nILEA rates,but the atmosphere is pleasant and\nthe work lighter. No lectures to Fr-German\nteachers this year,as a new lot have taken over\nat the Educational Interchange and they know not\nR.G. although he has xxxxx lectured for that\noutfit for about 12 yrs. Still,when one door\ncloses, another opens. And without the Ed Int\nI wouldn't have met Frau Bohler.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1640"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford266","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Feb 14th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford266","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"George Barker","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford266","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford266.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 27 P.C\n\n14 2 77\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nThanks for yrs of 10th.\n\nInterested to hear there may be a Pernod party to launch\nyour book. I need hardly say how much I'm looking forward to\nit. I hope it won't be delayed. March 3l would be a very good\npubn date. Interested too in the 1890''s Society meeting and glad\nto hear you were speechifying at it.\n\nI wonder what Time O'Keefe wants to see you about. Something-\nin your interest, I hope.\n\nGood that the novella is steadily growing.\n\nNothing much is happening to me. \"Null midwinter\" as I say\nin a poem. Much work and little play make R a dull boy...\n\nLove to you both,\nRobert\n\nMy young friend Matthew Sweeney is organising a poetry reading-\non Wednesday at North London Polytechnic. One is of the readers\nis Sebastian Barker, son of George Barker. Sons of the fathers\nor is it sins of the fathers ?\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1641"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford267","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Mar 2nd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford267","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Sloane Square","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford267","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford267.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffPEMBRIDGE POETRY GROUP\n\nCome & hear:\n\nJOHN HEATH-STUBBS\nJENNY JOSEPH\nROBERT GRGACEN\nMATTHEW SWEENY\n\nREADING FROM THEIR POETRY\n\nin\n\nThe King's Arms Wine Bar\nSloane Square S.W.l\n8pm\n\nSunday 27 March 77\nadmission:50p\n\nThis event has been organised in conjunction with the London\nPoetry Secretairiat (Poets in Public plus the Greater London\nArts Association).\n\nappallingly produced but these were done free for me by Matthew\nSweeney. I think I'll have to destroy them as they look\nawful!\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1642"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford268","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Mar 2nd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford268","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Invitation","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford268","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford268.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 27 P.C.\n2-3-77\nreplied 8.3\n\nVery pleased to have\ninvitation for 29th March\nwhich I have accepted.\nUseful publicity card - I\nlike the jacket illustration!\nAm asking \"BBN\" for the\nbook. Every success with it!\n\nLove to you both.\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1643"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford269","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Mar 9th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford269","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Sloane Square, Gallery Press","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford269","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford269.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 27 P. C.\n\n9. 3. 77\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nThanks for yrs of 8th.\n\nYou have a lot of interesting news in it. xxxxxxxxxxx\n Good to hear that the novella pro-\ngresses. Yes,difficult to see a piece of\nwork at all objectively just after complet-\nion. Note also the point about the xxxxxx\nthreatened libel action. Not Lady Muriel,I\nam relieved to hear.\n\nGood that you can come to the 27 March\n\"do\" in Sloane Square. I am holding a\ncouncil of war this evening to finalise -\nwhat a word! - arrangements. Heath-Stubbs is\ncoming - I find him agreeable and co-\noperative. London Poetry Secretariat has\ngiven \u00a340 for H-S and Jenny Joseph (i.e. for\nboth,not each). Jenny wants to hand over some\nof her share to Matthew and me, and intends to\nsuggest this to H.S. I am not really\nconcerned about the money as I want to get\nthe evening going and draw attention to the\nPembridge Poetry Group. The idea is to\ncelebrate the 21st reading,but of course I\nwant to continue with private readings mainly.\nEach of these means I'm a bit out of pocket\nbut I feel they are worthwhile.\n\nRe my 2nd autobiog and O'Keefe, I don\u2019t\nthink I like it so much now as to want to send\nit out before extensive revision. Now if he\nwere interested in a Fox book,that wd be xxxxx\nanother matter. I\u2019ve got a 2nd Fox book with\nDolmen at the moment (it was turned down by\nPeter Fallon of Gallery). Yes,I got some\nexcellent Fox reviews,not least in AQUARIUS,\nbut it hasN't helped in finding a publisher.\n\nLove to you both - Robert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1644"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford027","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Mar 22nd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford27","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"London Library, Blackstaff Press","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford027","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford027.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H P M\n22nd March 1973\nreplied: 24 Mar\nMy dear Derek,\nThanks for p.c.\nI was interested to hear of your encounter in the London Library. Senility beckons!\nBlackstaff Press have turned down my Ms without comment. Have sent it to Gerard van Seteren Werson, but am inclined to resign myself to not finding a publisher. At least it provided material for several pieces that did get into print.\nGroup 36 carries on, average attendance of 5, so am still recruiting.\nNo books from Valerie since before Xmas. She wrote to ask for name of B and B editor. Have you been getting books from her ? Anyway,they have been flooding in from Frank G B.\nI think that spate of strikes didn\u2019t achieve much and may have disappointed the militants.\nLove to you both \u2013\nRobert \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1402"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford270","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Mar 22nd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford270","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"The Irish Times, John Hewitt, Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford270","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford270.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff27 P. C.\n\n22 March 77\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nThanks for yr note of 19th.\n\nI've already been promised yr book by\nB.B.N. I've witten articles ixx,but.have not\nreviewed, in IRISH TIMES. As for David Marcus,he\nis very down on friends reviewing each others\nbooks. (He wd not allow Roy McF to review my\nIRENE for that reason.)\n\nWas getting over a heavy cold but the\nvirus has struck again. Dreadful cough plus\nother unpleasant features. All very depressing.\nEspec since Hidden is coming tomorrow evg and\nthere's the Sunday event. Still,one carries\non somehow.\n\nAll the best of luck for INSIDE THE 40's.\n\nLove to you both,\nRobert\n\nWas at Shirley's on Sunday despite xxxxxxxxxxxx\naforementioned all-conquering virus. Talked\nabout Hewitt,Heaney,Longley and self for\nabout l 1/2 hrs. Tiring but pleasant.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1645"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford271","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Mar 29th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford271","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Peggie, Publisher, Stuttgart","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford271","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford271.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 27 P.G\n\n29. 3. 77\nreplied: 3 Apl.77\n\nMy dear Derek\n\nI'm sorry I couldn't get along to the\nparty until fairly late because of work.\nWhat a big crowd! I couldn't find you or\nPeggie when I was leaving. You were obviously\nlike I was last Sunday - trying to have a\nword with everybody.\n\nPoor old Wrey fell over a table. I had a\ngood chat with him and he seemed to have\nrecovered allright.\n\nI stuck to bitter lemon,xxxxx so I got\nhome safely. Pernod est pour les autres.\n\nSorry to hear that Bernard Stone had been so\nill. No doubt worry over losing his Church\nWalk premises made things worse.\n\nI notice that ycur publisher,x unlike\nAllan Prior's wasn't handing out copies right xx\nand left. I'd be grateful if you would jog\ntheir memory about sending me a copy although\nI hope to get it from B.B.N. (Gillian is\ngood about sending me books but not those I\nask for.)\n\nVery much appreciated your presence\nlast Sunday evening. Love to you both -\nRobert\n\nP.S. To Stuttgart on Friday. I'll be back the\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1646"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford272","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Mar 29th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford272","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"German, Herta","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford272","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford272.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufefffollowing Monday. A German teacher is putting\nme up and Herta will come to see me - she lives\nabout 100 miles south, but  in the same \"Land\",\nBaden-Wurrtemberg. This man wanted me to stay\nlonger but I don't know him very well. After\nall,I haven't met his wife and family,and they\nmight be less willing to have me!\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1647"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford273","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Apr 6th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford273","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Inside the Forties","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford273","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford273.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff27 P. C.\n\n6 April 77\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nWhen I came back yesterday I found a copy\nof INSIDE THE FORTIES awaiting me (from xxxx\nBBN). I have devoured it eagerly and,even I\ndidn't know the author,I'd give it a very\nfavourable review. How excellently you have\nrecreated the atmosphere of the period! I like\nespecialty the way you combine personal memory\nwith critical comment. I congratulate you on\nthis fine piece of work. I may say that what\nyou write about me has my full approval: as\nCatholic Bishops say in the front of books on\nreligion of which they approve:Nihil obstat.\nI thank you for telling the world that I like\npork chops,useful information for any lady who\nhopes to woo me from my darling Herta. But\nbefore I leave the topic of your new volume,\nI want to express the wish that it will receive\nthe critical attention it deserves.(I also\nhope - this is a minor matter - that one day\nwhen you visit me at No. 27, you will sign my copy\nand also,perhaps,THE FREEDOM OF POETRY (or is\nit FROM?!).\n\nI'm sure you realise that you have made an\nenemy of Leslie Gillespie because of what you\nsay about him. He will be in a rage if/when he\nsees it. You know,I think,that^I haven't seen\nLeslie (or any of his family for almost 2 years.\n\nI just couldn't stand him any longer -- his\nbitter envy,and his obsessive frustration\nbecause nobody will publish his work. What a\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1648"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford274","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Apr 6th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford274","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Captain Fox","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford274","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford274.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffpity he can\u2019t understand that I like him in a\nnumber of ways and my liking is not determined\nby whether he\u2019s a good writer or not. My closest\nfriend (the art teacher in Belfast) has no\ninterest whatever in writing -- I gave him a\nsigned copy of the Fox book but he probably\nlooked at it for 5 minutes and never opened it\nagain.\n\nI had a very interesting though short time\nin Germany \u2014 a stay lengthened by nearly a day\nbecause of our splendid fellows at Heathrow.\nMy German friend drove me to Stuttgart from his\ntown (Bietigheim),nearly an hour(s journey,only\nto find that the flight had been cancelled\nbecause of the strike. Fortunately,there was a\ncancellation on a Lufthansa flight the next\nmorning and I got it without any extra payment.\nHelmut drove me back in the pouring rain to his\nhouse,plied me with more food,beer and wine,\nconversation and music; and then we were up at\n5 a.m. to have a good breakfast before returning\nto Stuttgart Airport, (\u201cit\u2019ll be allright this\ntime\u201d,xxxxx he said, \"you can rely on Lufthansa.\"\nThe implication being that you can\u2019t rely on\nanything Britiish. I felt ashamed,knowing he was\nright.) Herta came and he put her up. We had a\nvery xxxxxxxxxx good time,as Helmut loves driving\nround and pointing out the sights -- interesting\nfor Herta too as she doesn\u2019t know that part of\nBaden-Wurrtemberg. The xxxx highlight for me was\na visit to the Schiller Museum in Marbach. xx I\nwas very lucky in that a Hermann Hesse exhibition\nhad opened a few days earlier. Oddly enough,I\u2019d\nread a Hesse novel a few months ago.\n\nStill feeling a bit tired after my Teutonic\nadventures and the attempt by British Airways to\nkeep me in Germany,bless their kind hearts.\n\nOnce again,lots and lots of success with\nINSIDE THE FORTIES.\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1649"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford275","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Apr 14th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford275","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Daily Telegraph, The Guardian","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford275","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford275.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 2 7 P. C.\n\n14 Apr 77\nreplied:16 Apl   \n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nYour nice letter of 12th arrivedthis a.m. I saw\nreviews of INSIDE THE 40's in D.T. and Guardian\ntoday - what a lot of space.\u2019 The book will be\nbought,I\u2019m sure,by every library in the country.\nAnd there must be plenty of reviews to come.\nThe BBN review,though short, will probably do a\nbit of good overseas. I certainly hope so. It\nseems to me that bits of the book might be sold\nin the U.S. And have you thought of BBC radio\npossibilities?- Radio 3 or Radio 4: A number of\n40\u2019s poems,introduced by you,for instance ?\n\nI\u2018ve revised my 40\u2019s piece - it comes to\nabout 9,000 words with about a third on my\nmemories of London,Dublin,Belfast respectively.\nYou will remember that originally thex essay\nformed 3 articles in the Irish Times. But who\nthe hell wants 9,000 words ?\n\nRe: STONY THURSDAY. If you cd mention it\nsomewhere (not my poems so much as the mag\nitself) I\u2019d be grateful. I\u2019ve only corresponded\nwith John Liady but he seems a nice and capable\nyoung fellow (only 20, I hear). It seems to me x\nvery creditable for a young chap in a provincial\nIrish town to bring out, something of the kind -\nthis is the 4th issue; and he did a nice\nillustrated broadsheet. He doesn\u2019t pay but I like\nhis enterprise. Let Longley subsidise Liddy.\n\nThe Fox dream poem really is based on a dream\n- I didn\u2019t change a thing. \"No prizes for inter-\npretations\u201d is intended to fox the reader.\n\nRent up \u00a34 a month as from next May, due to\nbig increase in rates. Ugh!\nhope you enjoyed Ventnor.\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1650"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford276","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Apr 19th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford276","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"The Guardian, The Observer, Robert Nye","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford276","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford276.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 27 P.C.\n19 April 77\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nThanks for yrs of 16th.\n\nYes, Potter in the GUARDIAN souned odd\nwith that business of 2nd thoughts. I doubt\nif your letter will appear. I\u2019ve often seen\nreally vicious reviews there and no letter\npublished subsequently. I don\u2019t think you\nneed worry about such reviews (e.g. OBSERVER-\nas they say, a bad review is better than no\nreview. Librarians and readers think that if\nspace is given at all then the book may be\nworth looking at.xxx Also,some xx reviewers\nare so notable (notorious ?) for attacks that\na good review would raise doubts in one\u2019s mind\n\nI felt about Michael Hamburger as you\naid about Robt Nye. Hamburger wrote me a\nletter of glowing praise about the Fox book -\nwhat a pity he didn\u2019t say evenhalf of it in\nprint! Then in a later letter he x said he\nhad recommended the book when in Dublin and\nCork,whether in public or private I don\u2019t\nknow. But his praise in public would carry\nweight. Alas! alas!\n\nAs for my rather sketchy 40\u2019s memoirs,a\npamphlet wd be the thing,but pamphlets don\u2019t\nsell. However,I'm glad to have committed these\nmemories to paper. One day somebody might\ncommission'a short book and I\u2019d have the raw\nmaterial to hand.\n\nHope your fiction is preceding well. I\ncan understand that feeling of the man-hours\none spends on such work and how one hopes for\nsome return on the time and effort.\nAnother poetry reading in public-at Horseshoe Hotel\nbeside Dominion Cinema , Tott Crt Rd, but the poets\nthis time are little-known and I don't think we can\nget a London Poetry Secretariat grant. It will be on\nSunday evg., 22nd May.\nLove to you both - Robert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1651"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford277","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 May 31st","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford277","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Inside the Forties, Plymouth","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford277","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford277.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 27 P.C.\n\n31 May 77\n\nreplied 6th June 77.\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks yrs of 28th.\n\nGlad sales of INSIDE THE. FORTIES are\ngoing well. So far as I know, my notice\nxx for BBN hasn\u2019t appeared.\n\nInterested to hear of yr w/e at Plymouth,\nnews of Christopher Fry etc.\n\nRang Jack B this morning just after\ngetting yr letter. Unfortunately xxx he\ncan\u2019t manage Wednesdays which is the evg\nmy Group meets,but we hope to meet sometime\nand Jack wd like to come to the next public\nreading: 10th July (Sunday). Readers will\nbe Michael Hamburger,Matthew Sweeney,R.G.\nIncidentally,I hope you can come too! The\nlast public reading was a qualified success.\n\nA small profit,actually,but a poor xxxxxxxxx\nattendance. None of the readers is known to\nother than a handful of people and they\ndidn\u2019t try hard enough to rope in their\nfriends. Thanks for announcing it at your\nclass.\n\nI\u2019ll look forward to Shirley\u2019s piece on\nyou xxxxxxxx in the June B and B.\n\nDo you know ,del>xx what is now called PN\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1652"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford278","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 May 31st","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford278","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Michael Longley","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford278","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford278.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff\n\nReview,formerly \"Poetry Nation\". I got a nice\nrevi w of the Fox book - only 2 yrs late! -\nin the latest issue. It came from Andrew\nWaterman who first wrote a long introductory\nsection on Ulster poets,damning them generally\nand in particular Michael Longley. I\u2019ve written\nto Waterman and had a very nice reply \u2014 he will\nread to the Group when in London. But if Longley\nshd hear of RG-Waterman contacts,well........\n\nWhich reminds me/ to tell youthat I have put in for another\nBursary.... '\n\nYes,Roy\u2019s book is out. Nicely produced,I\nthought,and not provincial-looking. He is\ndisappointed not to have a London publisher -\nChatto turned it down. Roy is somewhat contra-\ndictory in attitude: a strong local patriot,he\ndislikes all local writers and their works with\none or two exceptions. His style and content has\naltered little through the years. Good,I think,\nbut I feel he ought to strike out into some new\nline and not keep chewing over the old Ulster/\nIrish themes. But do say a good word about his\nbook if you can.\n\nNot much else to tell you. I enclose a\nnew Fox poem. The facts about Giuliano are taken\nfrom Gavin Maxwell's book,\"God Protect Me from\nMy Friends\".\nlove to you both - Robert-\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1653"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford279","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 May 31st","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford279","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Captain Fox","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford279","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford279.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffFox in Sicily\n\nWhenever Fox unfolds a map of Europe\nHis eyes are drawn to burning Sicily,\nThat foot wrenched from Italy's leg\nHe visited the Island long ago\nTo meet a man some thought a bandit\nBut others called a Robin Hood.\n\nGiuliano does not rob the poor.\u201d -\nThis was the notice pinned upon the chest\nOf a dead follower who broke the rules;\nThe man had robbed a peasant.\nIn the name of God and Sicily\nGiuliano once killed a shopkeeper\nwho grossly overcharged on loans.\n\nKidnapper,murderer, he had said;\n\"I can look after my enemies,\nBut God protect me from my friends.\"\nHe was betrayed to death at 27.\n\nFox has spoken of a secret meeting\nWhere he transacted business\nith the man described as molto sincero,\nMolto bello and gentilissimo.\nFox could not fault him\nIn the courtesies of trading.\n\nHe told me how Sicilians think\nThat Giuliano sleeps among the mountains,\nTheir one-time and their future King\nLike Arthur of our knightly Camelot.\n\nThe Captain gave me this advice;\n\"If ever you should visit Sicily\nJust act the package tourist.\n\nDon't prod the sleeping lion!\"\n\nBobert Greacen\nMay 1977\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1654"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford028","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Mar 27th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford28","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"David Marcus, Roy McFadden","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford028","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford028.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H.P.M  27/3/73\nreplied:28 Mar\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks yrs.\nGlad to hear that Valerie keeps you supplied with books.\nI've had none since before Christmas so I suppose that's that.\nThank \nfrom \"The Teacher\" + the like! As with you, books keep pouring in from Frank.\nGood news about yr Carcanet project Like those of Jehovah, David Marcus, mills\ngrind slow but they Do grind. I had a letter explaining that he can be\ndisappointed in the quality of recent books but would send some later on.\nI think he likes to have a large number of reviewers on his panel, rather\nthan a few hogging up the available books. Not surprised to hear you had a book\nfrom him even though the last was in august '72.\nCoward dead! Hard to believe. isn't it? My respect for him grew as I was\nwriting that little book - and what a delightful man to meet!\nLetter today from Roy McF. The\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1403"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford280","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Jun 4th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford280","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Books and Bookmen","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford280","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford280.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff4 June 77\n\nI read. Shirley\u2019s review in B and B\nwith great pleasure. It ought to do\nyou a lot of good. Am hoping to see Jack\nnext Tues evg at No. 27.\n\nLove xxx to you both-\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1655"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford281","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Jun 9th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford281","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Trinity College Dublin","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford281","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford281.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff\n\nNo. 27 P.C.\n\n9th June,1977\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks for yrs of 7th.\n\nYour story sounds very interesting and\nI hope to have the pleasure of seeing it in\nprint. What comes spontaneously often turns\nout well and I note that it was 'improvised'\nwith an audience present.\n\nThe Giuliano poem has been accepted by\nHoward for OUTPOSTS. This Sicilian was a\nreal person,as I\u2019m sure you know,and I took\nthe facts about him from Gavin Maxwell's\nbiography. I've just had a copy of ICARUS,\npublished by students at Trin Coll Dublin,\nwith 5 Fox poems. Fox goes down well with\nstudents \u2014 they don't seem to resent his\nbeing reactionary:\n\nJack seemed to enjoy his evening here. I\nhad a few members of the Poetry Group as well\nand they were entertained by his reminiscence\nof the 4o's, eked out by references to D.\nStanford\u2019s \"Inside the 4o's\". I marvel at how\nwell I hit it off with the 25 year olds \u2014\nmuch less well with those of approx 35 or 45.\nPerhaps there\u2019s some kind of similarity in\noutlook xxxx every 30 years or one is just\nfar enough away to be a period piece and not\nmerely out-of-date.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1656"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford282","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Jun 9th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford282","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Dolmen Press, Northern Ireland Arts Council","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford282","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford282.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffAm waiting for confirmation from London\nPoetry Secretariat of 10th July poetry\nreading at the Plough in Museum Street and\nhope you will get along to it. Jack says he\nwill come. And I hope Herta will he there.\n\nLetter today from Dolmen Press to say\nthey 'hope' to decide about my new Fox\ncollection 'within the next couple of weeks' .\nThey are very slow but their books are\nbeautifully produced ,much better than xxxxxxx\nGallery.\n\nI think I told you I've applied for\nanother Bursary from IT.I. Arts Council.\n\nLove to you both - Robert    \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1657"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford283","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Jul 13th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford283","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Inside the Forties, Publisher","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford283","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford283.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 27 P.C.\n\n13th July '77\nreplied:21 July '77\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks for yrs of 12th.\n\nCongrats on the Readers Union edition\nof INSIDE THE FORTIES. Good-oh! as xxxxx\nschoolgirls said in the 40* s. Glad to hear\nyou are working on the stories and I hope\nyou will find a publisher.\n\nJack B will tell,x you about the reading\nlast Sunday. He was a great help to me there,\nlooking after Herta and another woman I know:\ngetting drinks for them,chatting etc. He also\nsaid some very nice things about Captain\nHoratio Fox,C.B,E. Michael Hamburger brought\nalong some Berlin friends - they came first\nfor drinks to No.27. A very nice fellow,\nHamburger. Poor chap,his son\u2019s a drop-out and\nhas been in trouble with the police over drugs\n(shades of Roy McFadden and his son).\n\nHoward Constable - bad joke - is coming\nto talk about OUTPOSTS to the Group on 20th\n(Wednes next). Would you be willing to come\nsome time to talk about the Forties ? Perhaps\nin August ? i asked Matthew Sweeney today if\nthis wd interest him and he said yes;very\ndefinitely - the 25 yr olds are not prejudiced\na bit against the 40*s and sane o\u00a3 them wonder\nwhat it was like to be a poet during the last\nWar. If not in August,what about later on ?\n\nYou could spend the night here or,more\ncomfortably perhaps with Jack. As I run these\nmeetings at a slight loss I couldn\u2019t offer a\nfee... sorry.\n\nhas told\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1658"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford284","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Jul 13th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford284","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Cyphers, Irish Arts Council, Trinity College Dublin","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford284","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford284.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff\n\nWhen I was having a lunch-time drink\nwith young Sweeney in \"The Castle\" in xxxxxx\nHolland Park Ave he was talking about having\nhad a nice letter,praising his work,from\nBrian Patten. A few minutes later,two blokes\ncame over to our table with their beer. One\nof them said \"Hello Matthew\". Ho prize\nfor guessing it was Patten and a xxxxxx\nfriend. We chatted for about half an hour\nand I found him a really nice,modest person\neven though he did think for a time I was\nRobert Gittings! He has a book for young\npeople coming out in the autumn. Any strong\nviews about his work ? I've read \"The\nIrrelevant Song\" which Matthew gave me.\n\nSome poerms I like but not quite my cup of\nNescafe. Apparently he's widely translated.\n\nYes,I hope my note in BBN will draw\nattention to yr book abroad.\n\nThe xxxxxxx\"New Poetry\" Fox poem\n\nhas been taken for CYPHERS in Dublin which\nis supposed ,del>xxxxxxxxx to be the best mag in\nIreland - they printed the Fox about his\nchildhood memories of Ireland. They pay(a\nfew quid per poem) as the mag is subsidised\nby the S.Irish Arts Council. Pearse Hutchin-\nson is one of the editors though they are\nmostly a younger lot than Pearse. And I had\na group of Fox poems in ICARUS,a student\npubn at Trinity College. This has less\nprestige but is widely read by undergrads.\n\n\"The delightful Herta\" read yr words\nwith pleasure. How true they are! Delightful\nwomen become even more delightful as time\npasses. You see how well I have recovered\nfrom Patricia. She joins me in sending love\nto you both - Robert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1659"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford285","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Jul 22nd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford285","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Oxford, Under Siege","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford285","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford285.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 27 P.C.\n\n22 July 77\nreplied 25th July\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks for yrs of 21st.\n\nA pity Wed is a bad evg for you. The Group\nhave got into the habit of xx meeting on that\nevg as it suits most of them. Perhaps when we\nmeet we cd talk about possibilities.\n\nI\u2019ve look at the Oxford Lit Guide in a\nb\u2019shp and I agree that it seemed delightful.\nWhat a lot of work it must have entailed.\n\nHoward gave us a nice evening. Even the\nyounger members thought he came out of it\nwith credit. Herta read a couple of poems in\nGerman -- a language known to a couple who were\nhere. She was also impressed by Jack whom she\nmet for the 2nd time -- he is her idea of 'the\nEnglish gentleman' (and I agree!)\n\nYes,I saw the ref to myself in UNDER SIEGE\nwhich has come for review. Hewison has kindly xx\nsent me an invitation to the launching party\nnext Thursday,altho\u2019 I met him only once - at\nthe Arts Council Poetry Library. Fortunately\nthe book only slightly overlaps with yours and\nhe is of a yonger generation. So that the xxxxxxx\nsubject\nis tackled in a totally different way. He's a\nvery bright boy as I realised after half an\nhour's chat. \n\nI have wrtten 1 poem about Fox\u2019s childhood\n(a holiday in Ireland). But I can\u2019t get ideas.\nxx they will either cone or not and if I forced\nmyself to do something on these lines it /they\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1660"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford286","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Jul 22nd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford286","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Dolmen Press, Northern Ireland Arts Council","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford286","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford286.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffmight come out rather stilted. I wrote a non-Fox\npoem about a month ago (copy enclosed). I\u2019ve been\nwaiting nearly 6 months for Dolmen\u2019s decision on\nFox. Fear to hurry them up too much as they might\njust send the Ms back. But these long publishing\ndelays are tantalising.\n\nFailed to get a N.I. Bursary. Don\u2019t know\nwho has succeeded. Of course I never go there.\n\nWd like to apply for Eng Arts Council Bursary\n- at I think it's called \u2019grant\u2019 here. Any ideas ?\n\nHerta joins me in sending love to you both -\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1661"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford287","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Jul 22nd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford287","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Brother Stephen","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford287","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford287.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffI, Brother Stephen\n\nI Brother Stephen, sit in the Scriptorium\nCopying,copying with diligence and x delight\nIn elegant, decorative lettering\nPsalter and gospels,praise be to Him!\nAnd praise also to our holy Abbot\nMild dove of Christ, sainted Columba\nOf Ulster,Scotland and Northumbria\nWith whom I sailed out from Lough Foyle,\nAway from Derry's grove of oaks\nWhen he was known as Columbcille.\nLong years ago we sailed,563 A.D. or so,\nLandfall unknown,the green wavexxx pounding\nAnd the storm butting our craft on to Iona.\nDeathly sick and scared everyone was,\nAll except our gently strong Columba\ntho calmed us with his burning faith.\n\"They that seek the Lord\", he said,\n\"shall want no manner of thing that is good.\"\nPraise Him! Praise Him! Praise Him!\n\nstudy, prayer, fasting, gardening, fishing,\nThe bothers knew little comfort of the flesh\nxxx foreven our robes are course and scratchy\nYet none would have it otherwise. Praise Him!\nPraise Him for thistle as for rose,\nPraise Him for bogland as for meadow.\nMy hands are calloused from oar and spade\nSo that I drive the quill right clumsily\nAcross the parchment acreage.\nPraise Him! Praise Him! Praise Him!\n\nTime was, when stripling green, I danced\nIn peacock robes of proudest hue,\nDicing and drinking in my father's house\nOf princely pomp and devil's luxury,\nWhoring fraa starry hour till rosy light.\n\nOne night when crazed with mead and lust\nI ploughed in ecstasy my brother's field,\nEmptied into his wife my bag of seed,\nHe roused us from our lecherous embrace,\nKilled her,the faithless one,at a swift stroke.\nBrother fought brother until I left him dead\nBeside the marriage bed I had defiled.\n\nI fled in panic,sought Columba's narrow cell,\nConfessed to him the anguish in my heart.\n\nHe sheltered,fed me,wrapped me in God's peace.\nPraise Him! Praise Him! Praise Him!\n\nover\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1662"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford288","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Jul 22nd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford288","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Brother Stephen","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford288","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford288.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNow here I write in rock-like safe Iona,\nI expiate my sins and will for all eternity.\nYet,God forgive me, I cannot but remember\nEven sometimes when kneeling with the Brothers\nThat woman's snowy breast and waterfalling hair.\nDeliver me from lechery, O Lord... deliver me.'\nDear Christ,hear Brother Stephen's prayer.\n\nPraise Him! Praise Him! Praise Him!\n\nRobert Greacen\n\nRobert Greacen\n(poem written June 1977)\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1663"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford289","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Jul 27th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford289","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Acquarius, Dublin","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford289","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford289.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 2 7 P. C.\n\n27/7/77\nreplied : 28th July 77\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks for yrs of 25th.\n\nGlad to hear the story-writing goes on\nwell.\n\nGlad you like the latest poem. Yes, a\nnew vein. About time to say goodbye to\nCapt. Fox. I've noted the points of query,\nespecially the one about what could be seen\nas a contradictory statement. I've sent the\npoem to George Barker's son Sebastian xx as\nthe he is editing the next issue of AQUARIUS\nin honour of Heath-Stubbs who will be 60\nnext year. As it happens I'm meeting H-S\ntomorrow and we are going together to the\nHewison party.\n\nVery kind of you to be willing to suggest xx\nmy name\nfor an Arts Council, award. Do you think it\nwould be better for the suggestion to come from\nsomeone who is primarily a poet ? I'll think\nabout it. Also,my last book was pubd in\nDublin - in fact my last 2 books. I have an\nimpression that these things are settled among\npeople who have personal contacts. The\npolitics of literature!\n\nArranging a public reading in Sept for\nDannie Abse. I think the Pembridge Poetiy\nGroup is getting known. Unfortunately one of\nthe best young supporters,Matthew Sweeney,is\ngoing to Germany for a year \u2014 he brought in a\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1664"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford029","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Mar 27th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford29","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Dublin, Sentimental","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford029","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford029.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffN.I Arts Council have commissioned a \"poster poem\" from his\n(\u00a350,000), of which he sends a copy. It will be illustrated\nby a Dublin artist. The poem, I think, is quite good\nbut not one of his best. Writing to order......But I'm delighted\nas he rather feels he's been kept out in the cold by the New Men.\nRoy is a very good fellow who always pretends he isn't - I think he\nfears that people might think him sentimental which he believes\nis The End.\nRoy also tells me that Freddie Vine's brother-in-law, a man called\nMac Mahon has been murdered. I knew that was the maiden name of \nF's 2nd wife, but it's a common Catholic name over there, so I didn't\nconnect when I read of the xxxxxxx murder.\nFreddy + death seem linked (a son drown, 2nd wife dead, brother-in-law murdered...)\n\nHope you can read this screed -\nLove to you both - Robert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1404"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford290","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Jul 27th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford290","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Herta, Arts Council of Northern Ireland","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford290","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford290.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffnumber of young people.\n\nHerta a went off last Monday. Have by now\nfilled the vacuum she left . Work is a great\ns'oand-by, except when it\u2019s too onerous or one\nis ill.\n\nLove to you both - Robert\n\nHamburger has expressed admiration for my\npoems. Would he carry weight with the Arts\nCouncil ?\n\nP.S. What about:\nMy hands are calloused now from oar and spade\nYet still I drive the quill with fluent strokes\nAcross..........\n   ..........\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1665"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford291","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Jul 29th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford291","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Acquarius","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford291","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford291.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff27 P. C.\n\n29th July 77\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nThanks for your prompt reply.\n\n(Had to know you also feel that Michael\nH would be a good person as sponsor. He is\nboth well-known and respected. Well,he can\nonly say NO. And good to hear from you that\nHoward S would write a supporting letter.\n\nHeath-Stubbs told me yesterday that\nFred Grubb had got a grant. Well! (good to\nhear you will be reminiscing x about H-S in\nAQUARIUS.   \n\nI met one or two people I knew at the\nHewison party \u2014 in one roam he displayed\nvarious '39-'45 books in a glass case - inc\nLYRA. I talked to a girl from Weidenfeld\u2018s\nand told her of yr book \u2014 said it was\nseeling well and was whetting interest in\nthe 40's period. Have you ever thought of\nmounting a 40's Exbition - books,Mss.,\npaintings et al\u2019 Lectures,too. Alex C and\nI once had this idea but it was too early\nto get much support.\n\nI'll write to Hamburger today.\n\nLove to you both - Robert\nx and appreciating\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1666"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford292","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Aug 6th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford292","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Arts Council of Great Britain","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford292","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford292.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffArts Council of Gt. Britain\n\nGrants to writers\n\nSponsor's reasons for recommending the writer for a grant:\n\nI have been impressed by Robert Greacen\u2019s recent work,\nespecially his sequence of 'Captain Fox\u2019 poems,and feel\nthat this writer badly needs some relief from economic\npressures and his arduous teaching duties,so that he can\nwrite the sequel to the 'Captain Fox' sequence already\npublished and a second autobiographical volume. After a\nprotracted silence,Greacen has emerged as a remarkable\npoet,who deserves every encouragement and help at a xxxxxx\njuncture that has put some strain on him.\n\nMichael Hamburger\n\n6th AUgust, 1977\n\nNo. 29 9th August '77\nMy dear Derek,\nYou will be interested to see that Michael H has to say about me.\nI've just phoned Howard S. who says he will send a supporting letter.\nI'm asking for \u00a32,000 - not \u00a320,000!! Thanks for your help in this\nas in so many matters.\nLove to you both - Robert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1667"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford293","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Aug 12th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford293","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Devon","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford293","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford293.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 27 P.C.\n\n12 Aug 77\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nHere\u2019s the latest, hot off the typewriter. It\u2019s a bit\nstrange,! think, but that\u2019s the xx way it turned out...\nNorton Fitzwarren and Shepton Mallet are in Somerset -\nSheepwash and Black Torrington in Devon.(The first 2 make\ncider which I frequently drink.) I started with the 4 names\nand worked the poem from an image I had in my mind of A\nStranger or Traveller. What do you think ?\n\nLove to you both - Robert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1668"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford294","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Aug 12th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford294","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"The Snake and the Traveller","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford294","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford294.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff\"The Snake and Traveller\"\n\nNorton Fitzwarren, Shepton Mallet,\nsheepwash, Black Torrington\nor some such western place -\nThe time a century ago.\n\nAn evening black as tar\nA knife of wind ice-edged\nAnd never a star to bless the traveller\nNor even cur to argue territorial rights\nA stranger rode up to the \"Fox and Hounds\"\n\nInside the oil lamps spluttered\nPoured light in saffron pool\nPolished the golden cider.\nThe traveller called for brandy,\nThe locals stared, froze into a hush\nAnd crowded round the fire.\n\nNo one remembred later xxxx how it happened:\nA callow youth guffawed, perhaps, to see\nA gentleman join the rustic company\nOr someone trod upon the stranger's foot\nOr spoke a dialect word translated into insult\nIn the traveller's cold brain*\n\nputting down his glass he pulled a snake\nOut of his pocket underneath his cloak.\n\"Apologise or die of snakebite\", he said.\nThe landlord and the villagers stood agape\nLike xxxxxxx tableau figures made of wax.\nA minute later all had fled]Except for the jelly-bellied landlord.\n\"Truly I'm most sorry,sir\", he gasped.\nThe traveller calmly ordered mutton chops,\nDrank two quarts of ale and went to bed.\n\nHours later Jack, an old labourer died\nOf a heart attack brought on by xxxxxx fright.\nYoung George stayed in bed a whole week.\nOthers screamed in their sleep\nSo that doctor and parson earned their keep\nFor several weeks on end.\nThe greaybeards met in council and declared:\n\"'Twas the devil in disguise or we be Dutch.\"\n\nThen the landlord had a new sign painted,\nRenamed his inn \"The Snake and Traveller\"\nAnd made a fortune for himself\nNot far from Norton Fitzwarren,Shepton Mallet,\nsheepwash, Black Torrington.\n\nRobert Greacen\n12th August 77\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1669"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford295","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Aug 16th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford295","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Dolmen Press, The Listener, Inside the Forties","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford295","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford295.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 27 P.C.\n\n16. 8. 77\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks for yr letter.\n\nGlad to hear yr own creative work goes on\nmerrily. I hope Kimber not only takes the Ms but\ntakes less time to decide than Mr.Miller of\nDolmen Press who has had my poems for 6 months.\n\nThe Hewison party was O.K. but the older I\nget the less I enjoy parties. I can't quite\nexplain it but I find them tiring and unsatis-\nfactory; and there are always too many hangers-\non around. Roy Fuller was there and a fellow\nI know from the LISTENER,D.A.N. Jones - xxxxx\nDavid Jones,more Jewish than Welsh,I'd say,a\nvery bright boy. But where were Comfort,N.Moore,\nTambi, Wrey G.,Derek S. ? Hamlet played not only\nwithout the Prince of Denmark but sans Polonius,\nOphelia and a few others. But the stalwart bard\nHeath-Stubbs lent his dignified presence; and\nthere\u2019s no irony intended. H-S ,to whom I\nspoke a good deal,is a very remarkable man.\n\nAs for INSIDE THE FORTIES, one of my xxxxxxxx\ncolleagues now calls me \"Pork Chops\" as a result\nof D.S.'s decade-delineation. Such is fame\n(infamy ?).\n\nI am very pleased with yr remarks about the\nnew poem,not least that you note my departure xxx\nfrom \"regular themes\u201d. I hope in the future to\n\"look shining at x new styles of architecture...\u201d\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1670"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford296","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Aug 16th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford296","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Captain Fox, Germany, Punk Rockers","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford296","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford296.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffDead horses need no xxxx flogging. Which is\nnot to say that novelty for its own sake\nis much use.\n\nYour detailed criticism is most useful and\nI'll incorporate some of yr suggestions into\nthe poem. No,I haven't checked on whether\nthesd places are near each other\u2022 But I\n can't xxxabandon such lovely place-names\nin the name\nof geography and hope that \"some such West-\ncountry place\u201d gets me off the hook. Or I\ncan simply plead \"poetic licence\". I've become\nInterested in the \"story poem\" and perhaps\nthere will be more of this type of poem.\nI think I must say Auf Wiedersehen or even\nGoodbye to Capt. Fox who has been much with\nme for the past 6 years.\n\nTomorrow evg there's a Group meeting here\nand Jack's going to read. I can't know how\nthe boys and girls will react,but on the\nwhole they are fairly polite to their elders.\nI get on pretty well with the 25 yr old lot\nwhereas I didn't care for the generation just\nafter xxxx ours.\nThey are not reacting against the\n40's about which they have an open mind.\n\nI've heard them call someone old-fashioned\nbecause they liked the Beatles! Today a 25\nyr old colleagure explained what the Rink\nBockers are all about and said he xx was too\nold to be one of them. Too old at 25!\n\nGoing G'many 21st and back 1st Sept.\n\n(If you shd wish to write : C/0 Bohler,\nGartenstr. 16 a, 789 Waldshut,Germany.)\n\nLove to you both,  Robert\n\nDOn't know what Constable Sergeant said but\nexpect he will know what will make best\nimpression. Hope so,anyway. I cd do with sane\nArts Council cash if only to prevent it going\nto the likes ol xxx xxxx xxx xxxx\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1671"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford297","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Aug 18th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford297","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Somerset Maugham","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford297","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford297.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff18 Aug. 77\n\nNo. 2 7\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nJack made his debut last night at the PPG\nand read 3 poems that were well received.\n\nThe gathering was smaller than usual because\nof the holiday season - what a writer char-\nacter of Somerset Maugham xxxxxx as \u201cfit\nthough few\". Next time of course they will\nbe more critical...\n\nCould you possibly distribute the enc\nleaflets to likely persons ?\n\nwd describe\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1672"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford298","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford298","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Thomas Blackburn","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford298","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford298.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffPOST CARD\n\nTHE ADDRESS TO BE WRITTEN ON THIS SIDE\n\nI read my new poem and it seemed to go\ndown well xxx - I incorporated some of yr\nsuggestions.\n\nHave you heard that Thomas Blackburn\nhas died (aged 62) ? I never met him but you\nprobably knew him.\n\nLove to you both - Robert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1673"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford299","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Aug 19th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford299","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Dolmen Press","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford299","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford299.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 27\n19th august 77\nreplied : 21 Aug 77\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nStill another note from me.\n\nI had a phone call from HS today. He\nread out the text of the letter he has\nwritten to the Arts Council - lengthy and\n'strong'. He must have taken considerable\ntrouble with it.\n\nNo,he didn\u2019t mention the Poetry Group\nnor did Michael H. A pity,but after all\nthe idea of these grants xxx to help\nwriters anf not so much the organisers and\nencouragers of writers. Or at least they may\npossibly look at it that way.\n\nGrant or not,it\u2019s very gratifying that\nMH and xx HS have been kind enough to say\nthese flattering things about me. Writing tends\nto be such a thankless business! I must thank\nyou too for your good offices with HS,as I\ndon\u2019t think I wd have approached him.\nLove to you both - Robert\n\nDolmen Press - Liam Miller,that is,is\nexcelling himself. He\u2019s had my 2nd Fox for over\n6 months and still hasn\u2019t decided. If he should\neventually say yes,perhaps I cd expect pubn\nby 1984.\n\nI wonder what kind of delay Jack had at\nHeathrow. I am flying from Gatwick,also\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1674"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford003","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1970 Nov 2nd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford3","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Peggie","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford003","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford003.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 62\nMonday. Nov. 2.\n\nMany thanks for your letter.\nI'll discuss the various points when we meet.\nYes, this coming Wednesday,\nNov. 4, will be fine. \"Old\nBell\", then, about 12.15.\nI do hope things will\nimprove for Peggie.\nLove-\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1378"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford030","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Mar 30th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford30","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Captain Fox, London, Protestant","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford030","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford030.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H P M\n30. 3. 73\nreplied 2 Apr\nMy dear Derek,\nMany thanks for yrs.\nYes, the Capt Fox saga inches forward.\nHad a letter from Freddy today. He has been upset over the murder of his brother-in-law and supposes it was because \u201che didn\u2019t play ball with the IRA\u201d. Freddy was pall-bearer at the funeral which he says was attended by about 2,000 people. It looks as if F is heading for London or thinking of. it. \u201cIf I could get an unfurnished flat or house I could transport all my furniture to London.\u201d When I suggested a few months ago that he should think of getting out (his wife was alive then) he didn\u2019t take kindly to the suggestion, said N.I. was his country and where his home was etc. One good thing is that he isn\u2019t badly off,as he inherited some money from his mother and owns the house in Banbridge, Co.Down, where he\u2019s been teaching. (Banbridge is where Fox\u2019s mother came from, you will recall. It\u2019s solidly Protestant. \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1405"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford300","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Sep 2nd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford300","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Blackburn","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford300","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford300.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo.27 2nd Sept. 77\nreplied 6th Sept 77\n\nMy dear Derek\nJust back - very tired after delays caused by\nair traffic controllers strike. Thanks for your\nletter of 22nd Aug. received at the \"fair Herta's\"\nNote what you say about Tom Blackburn. Good about\n\"THE ELDER TREE\"!\nThe weather was very good during my trip. (we spent\n2 nights in Heidleburg, a dream city) though H said\nthe week before my arrival was cold and wet.\nLucky old Robert!\nxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx\nLove to you both - Robert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:16","Nid":"1675"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford301","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Sep 2nd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford301","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Plucking Geese","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford301","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford301.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffPlucking Geese\n\nAlthough a Frenchman once told me:\n\n\"En Angleterre tout est possible\",\nI still haven't seen an August snowflake\nYet I soldier on in the hope that\n\nOne summer day the lid will lift off the sky\nAs they start plucking geese in heaven-.\nBig soft quills will eddy into explosions,\nShampooing cats, making children leap like salmon\nAnd the British Isles slither from Kerry to KirkwaL 1.\n\nOvernight this snow will turn to ice-cream,\nThe Prime Minister will recall Parliament,\nThe Emperor of ice-cream will replace the gueen,\n\nSquatters will dine at the Savoy\", sheep bleat the \"Messiah\",\nFootball hooligans will tiptoe in the National Gallery.\n\nAll changed, changed utterly, and a terrible whiteness born.\nBut most important,my Frenchman will be proved right.\n\nRobert Greacen\n\nWritten in Waldshut,August '77\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:17","Nid":"1676"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford302","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Sep 8th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford302","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Herta, Germany, The Standard, The Express, The Times","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford302","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford302.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff27 P. C.\n\n8th September 77\nReplied:12th Sept\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nThanks for yrs of 6th.\n\nI am glad you are so busy with stories and I'll look\nforward to reading them. \"Blue:A Biography\" sounds good -\nevocative xxx you are obviously using the various symbols -\nrowing \"Blue\", Mary's colour,blue for depression (suicide).\nThe Masque suggests to me COMUS:A MASQUE. Milton thou should'st\nbe living at this hour etc.\n\nApart from seeing Herta twice this xxxxx summer (and also for\na few days before Easter) I saw a good deal of South Germany,\nsome of it for the first time. The concept of effort,of taking\ntrouble and doing things well lives on there. Hence prosperity\nthough of course they have their idiotic terrorists (most of them\nupper middle class - the German workers want none of it). I hope\nthe German Govt will take tough measures and stamp these people\nout. If not,they will have a terrible problem on their hands.\n\nI am glad you .like PLUCKING GEESE (the phrase ccmes in Saul\nBellow's \"Dangling Man\" - a folk-phrase in Montana,it seems). Yes,\nI seemm to be trying new things. Creativity is very strange. It\nseems to come on one unawares and even In the midst of problems.\nFor one thing,I haven't really recovered from my colds and cough\nof last winter-spring, and like you,I DREAD this coming winter.\n\nI can see no way of being with Herta on a permanent basis. xxx\nI have a lot of tiring teaching work and this,in some ways,gets\nharder net easier. Yet ideas for poems come fairly easily. Per-\nhaps it's a matter of trying to resolve one's problems in another\nmedium. But then if the problems are too great one can do little\nworth doing.\n\nDannie was in good voice last night at the 4th public reading\n(and a young man called Tim Dooley also read). Jack B came along\nand I think the evening went well. TIME OUT didn't appear so we\ngot no publicity there,thanks to strikers. I also hoped for a xxx\nmention in the STANDARD (also on strike). I wd like to see the\nSTANDARD x and EXPRESS close down in London and deprive these\nworkers of jobs (as you know,they are extremely highly paid,\nanyway);the Manchester workers are much more reasonable,probably\nxxxxxxx because joos are scarcer in the North.\n\nI've been in touch again with David Holbrook as a result of a\nletter or his in THE TIMES complaining about the financial plight\nof writers. It's incredible to hear that,despite his enormous\noutput,his earnings are too -low for him to pay tax. So he says.\nI've asked him if he would like to read at one of my pub-public\n\nmeetings. He's prolific even as a poet. Now if he were a typist\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:17","Nid":"1677"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford303","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Sep 8th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford303","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Arts Council of Northern Ireland","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford303","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford303.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff\nin Zurich he would have 2 or 3 times his present income... and\nif he were a London printer.... I suppose that having 4 children\ndoesn't help matters. I am curious to know what sort of fellow\nhe is.\n\nDid you hear that Heath-Stubbs has been awarded 5,000 dollars\nby some American organisation? I have no x other details.\n\nI am a wee bit impatient to hear the result of the next\nArts Council Lit Comm's deliberations on grants. Despite all the\nslings and arrow,one keeps hoping.\n\nLove to you both - Robert\n\nP.S Andrew Waterman came to last nights reading and I'm meeting him on\nSaturday. He will read at No.29 on 21st September.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:17","Nid":"1678"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford304","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Sep 13th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford304","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"The New Statesman, Arethusa","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford304","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford304.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff2 7 P. C.\n\n13 Sept 77\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nYour letter was a very good one since you explained in\nsome detail what you are trying to do in your stories. You have\nwhetted my appetite. Can understand how important it is to get\n\"a publisher's green light\". So it was old AE who thought up\nthe term 'psychometric' as applied to writing. What a strange\nmixture that old boy was of woolly visions and down-to-earth\nUlster commonsense! As for your stories,I wish them well and\nhappy landing with a generous publisher!\n\nG.W.Stonier was a great favourite of mine in the old days\nof the NEW STATESMAN. I always felt he wrote so well. As xxxx\nAuden suggested,anyone can be pardoned for writing well. Never\ncame across the SHADOW ACROSS THE PAGE,but can well believe it\nis 'a little masterpiece'.\n\nYes,I\u2019ve asked Jack B to read at \"The Ship\" (Holborn) on\nWednesday evg., 26 October. David Holbrook will be the \"star\"\non that occasion. DH had a recent letter in The Times lamenting\nauthors' small earnings. That reminded me of him. His publisher\n(one of his publishers) wrote to say he had decided to\" give him\n\u00a3150 more on his advance for his next novel. And the letter was\ndiscussed on the Radio 4 programme END THE WEEK last Saturday.\nI'd say that letter has netted DH quite a nice sum. Mind you,I\nthink he would earn more if he halved his output and played\nharder to get.\n\nThanks for your telling me of yr Arts Council experiences.\nNo,I'm not despondent,just a bit impatient. Jonathan Barker has\ntold me that the next meeting of the relevant committee will be\nheld towards the end of this month. Fingers crossed.\n\nThe current TIME OUT bills Dannie Abse and Tim Dooley (with\nRG as chairman) for a reading this coming Wednesday evg in the\nShip Tavern... if it had appeared at the right time we would\nperhaps have doubled our audience...\n\nArethusa has had a short article published in a paper called\nthe SOUTHERN STAR (about a new educational venture in Bantry).\nSimple language but quite clearly written. Very pleased as she\nreally needs a break.\n\n-;obt Lowell is the latest to go... only 60... But as Groarty\nonce wrote (it sticks in my mind,although I don't think he was\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:17","Nid":"1679"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford305","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Sep 13th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford305","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Seaford","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford305","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford305.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffmuch of a poet): \"Why should I fear to join my friends ?\"\nAbout all for now. Love to you both - Robert\n\nShirley T rang me a few days ago. One of her queries was how to\nget blood out of a stone - sorry,I mean money money out of B and\nB . I told her about my experiences but referred her to our man\nin Seaford.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:17","Nid":"1680"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford306","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Sep 20th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford306","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"New England Review, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Referendum, Dail","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford306","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford306.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff2 7 P. C\n\n20th Sept. 77\nreplied:26 Sept\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nThanks for your letter of 16th.\n\nGlad to hear of your coming review for I.T. and of your\nplans for more stories using - if I get the drift right - the\nspirit of Rupert Brooke etc., to communicate their experiences\nto living people. A good idea.\n\nTomorrow evg Andrew Waterman in coming to No.27 to read from\nhis work. Then,on 26 Oct. (a Wednesday) ,we have a public reading\nwith David Holbrook and Jack B. at the xxx Ship Tavern,Holborn.\n\nI haven\u2019t met Holbrook and don\u2019t know what he's like as a reader.\nBut he's controversial and that may bring people along.\n\nHave you reviewed GOD'S APOLOGY ,a book about the friendship\nbetween Muggeridge,Hugh Kingsmill and Hesketh Pearson? I was\nvery interested in Kingsmill (though the whole book interested me)\nwho - to judge xxxx from the quotations - wrote distinctively,\nand was a terrific personality. His real name of course was Lunn\n(father was the travel agency man). And of course the poor chap\nhad a long,hard and unrewarding struggle with damn little fame and\ndamn little money. Pearson did well in the end out of his bio-\ngraphies. But all 3 of them were out of step with the Thirties\nLefties without being \"in\" with the Rightists. They were,polit-\nically,more or less old-fashioned patriots and small \"c\" conser-\nvative individualists. Did you ever meet H.K. ? I think you may\nhave written in the NEW ENG. REVIEW.\n\nI see that Conor Cruise O'Brien has put the pussy among the\npigeons yet again by saying that in a referendum in Ireland (as a\nwhole) the vote would be against unity. He's a very remarkable man\n-too brilliant (and eccentric) ever to be Top xxx Dog in the\nOther Island. He's in the Senate now,a more fitting place for\nbrilliant eccentricity than the Lr House (Dail). One of the few\npeople over there I'd like to meet.\n\nHave been following the case of Victor the Giraffe with great\ninterest. Today's paper tells me that : \"The Navy has agreed to\nmake a special sling similar to a huge pair of trousers.\" In what\nother country would Victor's adventures/misadventures be followed\nwith such interest ? It's still a great country,inflation\nnotwithstanding.\n\nLove to you both - Robert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:17","Nid":"1681"}},{"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","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:17","Nid":"1682"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford308","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Sep 27th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford308","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Oxford, Dail, Roy McFadden","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford308","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford308.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff\na 't'. He said Terence\u2019s brilliance was obvious\nin his schooldays yet he told me of one or two\nincidents that forshadowed ultimate failure.\nPress works for Br Council in Oxford - I xxxxxx\nthought him the best poet of the 3. Other\ninteresting people,too,so I had quite a day.\n\nLetter this a.m. from Sebastian Barker\nxxxxx(George B\u2019s son) saying he would like to\nuse a passage of 9 lines from my Brother\nStephen in the next issue of AQUARIUS,a Heath-\nStubbs\u2019 xxxxx festschrift. I\u2019m saying yes.\n\nThis is the first time an editor has accepted\na section fran a poem. Eddie Linden has\ncollected a large amount of money and I'm told\nhe's going to do a bumper issue,beautifully\nproduced,that will do H-S proud. From meeting\nhim and iron what I've heard Eddie knows damn\nall about poetry or anything else. He special-\nises in knowing poets (and people with a few\ncoppers to throw around). He told me that,\nhaving arranged a poetry reading in the H of\nCommons,he is new doing one in the Dail in\nDublin. He also said he had got some money out\nof Roy McFadden (whose address I'd given him).\nNow Roy isn't mean but at the same time he\ndoesn't exactly throw his money away,so I take\noff my hat to Eddie as a fund-raiser.\n\nHad dinner last night with my old teacher,\nRonald Marshall (he lives now in his native\nTodmorden) at the Oxford and C(bridge Club. A\ndelightful place, xxxxxxx Marshall,now in his\nlate 60's,is a delightful man:cultivated,kind,\ngentlemanly in an un-snobbish way. Among other\nthings,he knows Italian well and has been\nwriting about a poet called Belli who wrote in\nthe Roman dialect in the last century. Anthony\nBurgess has also written,in a novel,about Belli\nbut Ronnie thinks Robert Garioch\u2019s translations\ninto Scots are absolutely spot-on. I told him\nabout these when a few appeared in NEW POETRY,\nthere are a lot more in Garioch's COLLECTED POEMS\njust published since our last meeting he has corresponded\nwith Garioch (real name Robt Sutherland).\nLove to you both-\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:17","Nid":"1683"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford309","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Sep 28th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford309","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Arts Council of Northern Ireland","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford309","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford309.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff28th/Sept./77\nreplied:30th Sept\n\nThe arts council regrets....\n\nLove to you both,\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:17","Nid":"1684"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford031","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Mar 30th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford31","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Solicitor","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford031","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford031.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffLetter from Roy a few days ago. He says he will be staying there. He says he will be staying there. His case is rather different. He\u2019s very much a local boy and has family commitments. Besides,a solicitor in N.I. can\u2019t practise anywhere else. But he says his income is still going down.\nGlad to hear City Lit is reopening if only for the last week of term. My college wasn\u2019t affected. Who strikes next ?\nWhat wd I do if I found a 1? inch tall Venus on my bedroom rug ? Why,auction it at Sothebys!\nLet me know when you are next free for lunch.\nLove to you both \u2013\nRobert  \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1406"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford310","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford310","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Catholic, The Irish Press, Eamon DeValera","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford310","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford310.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 27 P.C\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks to you and P for your lovely\nbirthday card.\n\nI've news for you - see enclosed. I know\nnothing about this Brian Fallon (except that\nhe isn't related to Peter Fallon of Gallery\nPress - a fairly common Catholic Irish name).\nWhat I've just said makes a point. Even\nfairly recently the I.T. was rather Anglo-\nIrish ,now it's almost wholly \"native Irish\u201d.\nWhen I was in my 20's the lit ed was ,for\ninstance, Bruce Williamson, from a B'fast\nProtestant family and educated at Shrewsbury.\nThe IRISH PRESS ,on the other hand (started by\nde Valera) has always been 99% Catholic Irish,\nbut are liberal enough to accept a Jew as\nlit ed. Ironically,! have always had better\ntreatment frcm the I.P. than the I.T. although\nin theory it should be the other way round.\n\nI rather enjoy these ironical situations. The\nonly truly vicious attack on me in print came\nfrcm Williamson with whom,up to then, I had\nbeen on very good terms. I think I can say it\ncame from sheer jealousy as x my poems were\nappearing everywhere and his weren't. Still\non the I.T. he has never published a book of\nany kind, and I've been told he has long been\nan alcoholic. IT's all so long ago I bear him\nno ill-will. He had a decisive influence on\nmy life. I was a bit undecided whether to stay\non in Dublin or come to London - Patricia\nsaid she would do whatever I wished. So I\ndecided to leave. Of course I might have left\nlater on,anyway.\n\nInterested in yr views on German writers.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:17","Nid":"1685"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford311","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford311","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Ulster Tatler, Time out","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford311","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford311.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffHeine\u2019s CONFESSIONS sounds good.\n\nI heard from my friend on the ULSTER TATLER\nand he says my Lynd article is \"admirable\".\nHaven\u2019t yet seen xx the mag but it's glossy so\nI suppose thepay is at least \"reasonable\". Expect\nonly a small section will be devoted to lit\nmatters and those mainly of Ulster interest.\nBut when I know more about it,I\u2019ll tell you\nwhether it would be worth your while writing to\nhim. He\u2019s called Sam Hanna Bell and has written\na few novels pubd in London - retired from\nB\u2019fast B.B.C.\n\nMatthew Arnold xxxxx was right about always\nkeeping some specific end in view. I think I\nhave learned to do that - more instinctive\nthan based on a precept.\n\nTIME OUT has listed the David Holbrook-Jack B\nreading. The young chaps tell me that brings\npeople and apparently the N.S. cuts no ice even\namong the Leftist young - it\u2019s for oldies. I\nhave an almost irrational distaste for the N.S.\nDon\u2019t like it\u2019s superior tone at all. Kingsley\nMartin,remember,wouldn\u2019t let Orwell tell the\ntruth about Spain and Orwell,heaven knows,wasn\u2019t\na Tory.\n\nIt might be worth your while writing to\nBrian Fallon. He will know my name as I\u2019ve\nhad a few pieces in the \"Arts and Studies\"\nsection (separate from the review page) while he\nwas editing it. He never wrote to me,just shoved\nthe articles in. I might write to him except\nthat I\u2019ve enough work of one kind and another.\n\nLove to you both -Robert\n\nThird week of dieting, Often feel hungry!\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:17","Nid":"1686"}},{"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","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:17","Nid":"1687"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford313","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Oct 1st","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford313","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Catholic, Jew","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford313","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford313.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffthe purest kind.) If I were a Catholic/Jew I\u2019d say\nof H.M. - God rest his soul. I\u2019m afraid I could never\nsee anything of interest in his poetry.\n\nYou don't say how Wrey G. was so I assume he\nwas very much the old Charles Wrey.\n\nI've been told by my doctor I'd do well to get\nrid of 1 stone in weight. I'll try. No dire warning but\njust that it would be better for me. So perhaps I shall\nbe writing A FAREWELL TO CHIPS one of these days.\n\nHope your cold has cleared up.\nLove to you both- R\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:17","Nid":"1688"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford314","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Oct 6th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford314","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"The Irish Times, Cyphers, Arts Council of Northern Ireland","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford314","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford314.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 27 P.C.\n\n6 Oct 77\nreplied: 8th Oct\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nStill doing my damndest to xxxx cut down\non certain foods and drink. Am also walking a\nbit more than usual. You seem to have won the\nbattle.\n\nInteresting about Wrey. He\u2019s having a good\ninnings. Perhaps he\u2019s tougher than he seems to\nbe. xxxx what you say about Wrey bringing the\nMaclaren-Ross boy to live with him and Diana\ndoes him credit. I think Wrey\u2019s place will be\nfor his editorial work; he has alwys seemed\nweak creatively,to me anyway.\n\nGood about yr stories and you have obviously\nbeen working hard since June. Let\u2019s hope that\nKimber bites.\n\nNote what you say about Fraser Harrison whom\nI heard speakingthe other evg on Radio 4 (about\nOscar Wilde). Yes,will let you know if/when I\nsee yr IRISH TIMES review. As you know,their\nreviews are on Saturdays.\n\nGot a copy of CYPHERS from Dublin yesterday\nwith my poem about Fox in China. This is a\nhandsome publication (grants from Dublin and\nB\u2019fast Arts Councils,so they pay contributors).\nYes,as you said,a lot of my poems are getting\ninto print. It's Been a long,hard slog trying to\nmake up for the missing years.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:17","Nid":"1689"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford315","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Oct 6th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford315","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Arts Council of Northern Ireland","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford315","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford315.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff\nMy old schoolfriend Leslie Baxter,over\nfor a teachers conference,stayed here last\nnight. We had a lot to say to each other.\nThe thought has just occurred to me that in\nseveral hours of conversation politics wasn\u2019t\nmentioned! He lives for his work (teaching\nart),house and garden \u2014 probably doesn\u2019t\nknow the name of the P.M.! Yet he can tell\none the measurements of every cathedral in\nEurope and such-like.\n\nHave you heard this one ? Someone wrote\non a wall JESUS SAVES. To which was added,in\nanother hand, MOSES INVESTS.\n\nA wall I pass every day,in a street off\nHolland Park Ave., has an inscription in\nhuge letters : WHY NOT ?\n\nI may have told you I had a nice letter\nfrom Howard S. He said he was \"astounded\"\nat the Arts Council decision.\n\nHope you can manage to come to Holbrook/\nJB reading on 26th.\n\nLove to you both - Robert\n\n1 1/2 pints of beer today,\n1/2 at lunch, 1 pint this evg.\nSipping orange juice as I type\nand wallowing in self-pity.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:17","Nid":"1690"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford316","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Oct 11th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford316","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Publisher, New Poetry","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford316","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford316.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 27 P.C.\n\n11 Oct 77\nreplied. 14th Oct\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nThanks for yrs of 8th.\n\nAgree with you about the need for very\noccasional self-pity. Still on reduced diet\nbut it will prob take some weeks before my\nmasochism produces a fall in avoirdupois.\n\nNote what your say about Kimber\u2019s and hope\nyou get good news from them. Also yr idea for\na novella. Can understand you don\u2019t want to do\na hell of a lot of work without some initial\nencouragement from a publisher. That may be\nwhy poetry writing is more popular. However much\none works on a poem, the time/energy doesn\u2019t\ncompare with working on even a short book.\n\n|\nKay very kindly sent me x paperback and\nhardback copies of THEY. A most interesting\npiece xxxxof work. She of course took the hard way\nof full-time writing which must be enough to\ndrive even the well-balanced near to suicide.\nSo glad that things are now working out for her.\nPrize from S.E.Arts as well as simultaneous\npubn of the 2 edns. Let\u2019s hope reviewers are\nenthusiastic.\n\nJust been asked for permission to have my\n\"Fox Visits the New China\" read by an actor at\nMatchlight Poetry (\"Black Bull\" ,Fulham Rd.) on\nthis coming Thursday. Eileen Warren,who runs\nthis venture,saw xxthe poem in NEW POETRY. I\u2019ve\nbeen to one Matchlight evening and it had a\npacked house. She runs it in a different way xxx\nfrom most poetry readings \u2014 actors mainly do the\nreading and she has a duplicated programme.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:17","Nid":"1691"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford317","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Oct 11th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford317","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"David Marcus","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford317","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford317.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffEven a duplicated form for poets\u2019 permission\nAs you see,the venture - whatever its heme\n- is well-organised a which is more than one\ncan say for most of these readings. Others poets\nhaving work read on Thurs include Enright,\nRedgrove,Patricia Beer.\n\nTomorrow evg I have P\u2019bridge Poetry\nGroup meeting in the flat.so this is something\nof a poetry week.\n\nWork calls so I must say 'bye\nLove to you both- Robert\n\nDavid Marcus has sent me for review\na book by Alistair Cooke called \"SIX MEN\".\nFascinating stories of Charlie Chaplain, Bogart,\nAdlai Stevenson, Mencken ect.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:17","Nid":"1692"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford318","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Oct 15th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford318","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"The Irish Times","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford318","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford318.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 27 15 Oct./77\n\nNo review by you in today's \"I.T.\"\nThere is a note which reads:\n\"Terence de Vere White has returned\nas Literary Editor, but will still\ncontinue to write regularly on this page.\"\nLove to you both - R\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:17","Nid":"1693"}},{"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","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:17","Nid":"1694"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford032","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Apr 2nd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford32","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Influence","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford032","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford032.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffMr. + Mrs. D. Stanford,\n5, Cricketfield Court,\nCricketfield Rd.,\nSeaford,\nSussex\n\nas from Hotel Excelsior, Zurich.\n\n2nd April '73\n\nI wish you would use your influence with R.G. and urge\nhim to stop writing about me. It can be rather embarrassing\nas you will appreciate. Why dosen't he continue to write about\nhis old girl-friend Irene, if he must write about someone? This\nis being posted in London by Carrington-Smythe. Cordially,\nF.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1407"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford320","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Oct 17th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford320","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Ulster Tatler, Books Ireland, Irish Press","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford320","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford320.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffGerman. (She isn't a keen reader but like most Germans\nis keen on culture (Kultur)in a theoretical sense.\nAlso to some extent in a practical sense. Likes\ngoing to the theatre,art galleries,but in moderation.)\n\nSince Friday - today is Monday - I\u2019ve had\na spate of prose writing. Two articles of 1,000\nwords each; a xx 900 word review; a short\nxxxxnotice for BBN. I hardly lifted my head on\nSat and Sun apart from morning Church service\non Sun. One of the articles was a piece on\nRobt Lynd written,by request,for a new mag -\nthe ULSTER TATLER. The other was an article on\nbookshops in Belfast in the 30\u2019 s,written on the\nsuggestion of my cousin Walter\u2019s wife (an\nEnglishwoman) who does a bit of writing herself\nand thought it might slot into something called\nBOOKS IRELAND (she knows the editor). The\nlong review was for IRISH PRESS on Alistair\nCooke's latest and the short piece on Iain\nCrichton Smith\u2019s latest book of verse. When I\nthink of my idle youth!! But work keeps one\nfrom being bored. I suppose that's why Bing\nstuck it right to the end - the money must have\nceased to matter to him years and years ago.\n\nThese new/new-ish Irish mags pay. I\u2019ll let\nyou know later about them when I see how they\nreact to me. There might be a few pennies there\nfor you. You prob got my p.c. to say Terence de\nVere White was retiring.\n\nLove to you both - Robert\nMy old teacher has sent me a copy of Robert\nGarioch's \"Collected Poems\". Original work + \"versions\"\nof a poet called Relli\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:17","Nid":"1695"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford321","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Oct 31st","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford321","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Time out","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford321","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford321.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff\n29 P.C.\n31/Oct./77\n\nMy Dear\nThanks for yrs of 28th\nsorry to hear about your bad cold and sore throat\n- Jack told me you had to go back home after lunch.\nHope things are better. But you did manage to\nget several of your students to attend. Jack found the\nreading interesting & useful.\nHolbrook read very well indeed. It's interesting that\nthis was the worst - attended of all our pub readings,\ndespite its listing in TIME OUT. Dannie Abse's was not\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:17","Nid":"1696"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford322","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Oct 31st","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford322","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Inside the Forties","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford322","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford322.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufefflisted (because of a strike) but the attendance was\nxxxx about double.\nI think the reason was/is Holbrook's views. One\nmember of the group would not come for that reason\nand another came reluctantly. Draw what conclusions\nyou will!\n\nWhat a shame that INSIDE THE FORTIES hasn't sold more\nthan just under 2,000. Still it will go into all the\nlibraries - and, thank goodness, you will be getting\nroyalties on one or two hundred copies.\n\nCongrats on yr Scotsman poems. Does Willis select\npoems now Robert Nye has gone to Ireland? What news of\nthe 3 stories?\n\nMust rush, Love to you both - Robert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:17","Nid":"1697"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford323","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Nov 22nd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford323","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Letters","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford323","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford323.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 27 P.C.\n\n22. II. 77\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nThanks for yrs of 19th.\n\nJust getting over my 1st winter cold.\nIt wasn\u2019t as bad as usual - but I must\ntouch wood quickly. Last year I was just\ngetting over one cold when bang came an\neven bigger one.\n\nNow,business. Well,well,well! of all\nthe damn ironies... A few weeks ago I\ngot rid of literally hundreds of letters,\ncards and what-not that had accumulated\nover the past year or so, so that my folders\nwere absolutely bursting. I didn\u2019t touch\nearlier material. I threw away a lot of\nletters (quite a few of yours I must\nconfesses) they had all been answered and\nwith new books and mags coming in I haven't\nenough space - and all Freddy's bloody\nstuff here,too!\n\nNow,all I can find of the period 14 Feb\n- 31 Oct of yours are 3 letters (enclosed).\nI\u2019ve looked around and see lots of yours of\nearlier years - 76, 75 etc. Can you xxxxxx\npossibly match up any of these ?\n\nAs for the Myers letters,I\u2019ll ring her\nbefore I seal this letter and will add\nsomething about that if I can contact her.\nTerribly rushed at the moment with classes\nand preparation for them,as a lot of xxxxxx\nstudents are taking exams (which means\nmore work for me).\n\nover\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:17","Nid":"1698"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford324","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Nov 22nd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford324","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"New York, The Times","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford324","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford324.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffWhat an absurd, review that must have been;\nOnly one or two like Tambi cd be called\n\u2018lunatics' and then only in a figurative\nsense.\n\nR. Greacen\n27 Pembridge Crescent\nW.11.\n\nI'm waiting to hear from Hamilton\n(Autographs) in H.Y. to whom I've sold items\nfrom time to time. I sent them the collection\nof letters dealing with the Holbrook letter\nto the TIMES a few years ago. There was a\ngood Graves letter,though he didn't sign,\naddressed to me and an Auden signature that\ncame too late,you will remember.\n\nHave rung W.M. I am to go and see\nher next week. She said she had been trying to\nget in touch with me and said a few vague\nwords about some offer. So let's see what\nthat is all about.\n\nSorry not to be sending you more than\nthese 3 letters but they are good ones. What\ndo you think ?\n\nLove to you both.\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:17","Nid":"1699"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford325","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Nov 25th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford325","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Acquarius, Occult Stories","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford325","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford325.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 2 7 P. C.\n\n25. 11. 77\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nThanks yrs 23rd,\n\nYes,bugger these colds. I went to the\nDoctor in the summer to see if anything cd\nbe done in advance. The answer was NO, so I\ngrit my teeth and try to bear them stoically.\nApparently,there's something wrong with my\nnose (internally) that prevents me from\nbeeathing properly which I why I pick up\nnasal-throat-eye infections easily. I add\nxxxx\"eye\",since,recently,eye-watering has been\nworse than usual,partly caused by the bitter\nwinds. So I thoroughly sympathise with you.\n\nWill use my discretion about. W.Myers,\nxxxxQuite agree about a pound in the hand.\n\nI take it the party was to launch the\nSebastian Barker book. Don\u2019t much care for the\nfellow nor his Daddy. He wrote to me rather\nxxxx snootily to accept part of a poem I\nsubmitted for AQUARIUS. But useful to have\nhad an invitation to write for THE TABLET.\n\nGood about OCCULT STORIES acceptance.\nWell,yes,JBP may be xxxxxxxxxxxmiddlebrow\nbut he\u2019s managed to get the O.M.\n\nWhat rotten luck about the SCOTSMAN! Wish\nI could afford to strike. But then you and I\nare in the position of 'no work,no pay' -- and\nwhat a pity it isn't like that for eveybody.\n\nLove to you both - Robert\n\n-Li\n\n/L-o,\n\n$\u25a0-\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:17","Nid":"1700"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford326","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Nov 29th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford326","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Holland Park, The Times","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford326","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford326.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 27 P.C.\n\n29. 11. 77\nreplied : 18th Dec 77.\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nSaw Auntie Winifred today. I did a\ndeal over C.D. Mss and letters (letters to\nC.D.) and came away with a cheque for\n\u00a3375. I asked for \u00a3420 and she offered\n\u00a3350,so we compromised. No doubt if I\nreally knew the market I cd have done\nbetter still,but I\u2019m reasonably satisfied.\nI've Ixonly a little C.D. stuff left but will\nprobably hang on to it, at least for the\ntime being -- mainly Mss of poems and the\nlike.\n\nAs for the R.G.-D.S. letters xxx it\u2019s\nno go, so I rescued the 2 packets. Over to\nyou. Will you meet me one day and I\u2019ll hand\nthem over.\n\nIs it difficult for you to get to\nN.H.G.- Holland Park area ? Ixx We cd either\nmeet for lunch or you cd come to No.27\nbetween 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. almost any day.\nOr I cd meet you for lunch in town from\n19th Dec. onwards. Let me know what's best\nfor you.\n\nStill waiting to hear from Hamilton in\nN.Y. about the TIMES letter material.\n\nWhat is the tax position ? I think one\ncan get up to \u00a3500 in any one Tax year\nwithout any bother. Can't find the relevant\nsection xx (Capital gains) in the folder\nsent out by the Inc Tax people.\nLove to you both, Robert,\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:17","Nid":"1701"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford327","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Dec 3rd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford327","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Holborn, Rupert Graves","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford327","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford327.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo 27 P C\n\n3. 12. 77\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nThanks for yrs (undated).\n\nPlease thank yr Accountant. I think\nthe amount used to be \u00a3500 and ii has been\nraised to \u00a31,000. In future I shall know\nwho to consult re Accountancy problems.\n\nYes,next Wednesday 7th be fine. I don't\nfinish till 1 p.m. so,to save time,cd I\nSkip the pub and meet you in the Italian\nretaurant, the 'Ristero' in Church Street\n(opposite the Mall and also opposite an\nantique shop)? I'd get along about xxx\n1.15. And of course I invite you by way\nof modest Clifford-and-Christmas celebrat-\nion. (If I were an R.C. or Jew I wd add\n\"God rest his soul\"...) it\u2018s an xxxxxx\nCentral Line run up to H\u2019born.\n\nSaw the OUTPOSTS review of I.T.F.\nHave looked up Howard in yr book and one\nreference shows him to be quite a hero, so\nhe shouldn\u2019t feel too sore.\n\nSoreness reminds me that,having nearly\nlicked the first wintry cold,I woke up\nyesterday with sore and stiff back that persisted\nall day. It's not sore this a.m. but a bit\nstiff. Ageing,ageing... Even Herta is ageing\n- she was 50 recently. She intended to cry\non her birthday but xxx was so busy cele-\nbrating that she forgot!\n\nAnother moan - I sent off the ,anti-Porn TIMES\nletter correspondence to Charles E. Hamilton's in New York on\n26th Oct.-some good items esp R.Graves letter. Mind\nyou it went\nby sea mail. But I fear that it may be lost or, more like, stolen.\nI,ve dealt with Hamilton,s years ago and they were O.K. -a highly\nreputable firm, so I don't suspect them. Let that be a lesson to me!!\nLove to you both - Robert-\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:33","Nid":"1702"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford033","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Apr 9th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford33","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Thanks","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford033","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford033.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffDerek Stanford Esq,\n5, Cricketfield Court,\nCricketfield Road,\nSEAFORD,\nSussex.\n\nApril 9th, '73\n\nMany thanks for p.c. Right\nWednesday, 11th then (instead of 12th, Thurs). I v. much enjoyed\nboth R.N. and MacCaig's reading. Have long admired Mac C's work.\n\nLove to you both - Robert.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1408"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford034","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Apr 27th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford34","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Captain Fox, Arms dealer","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford034","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford034.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H P M\n27/April/73\nMy dear Derek,\nI very much enjoyed our meeting \u2013 and how nice to see Jack again !\nI had some copies made of those cuttings about my American relations and enclose copies. You hadn\u2019t much time to look at them in the \u201cGaiety\u201d. It\u2019s rather pleasing to have discovered a new set of cousins and what-not; and pleasing that Edmund Greacen is being rediscovered after a period of neglect. I want to send them copies of my books but can\u2019t get hold of \u2018em \u2013 even EVEN WITHOUT IRENE is out of stock (of course I have copies of everything for myself, but wild horses etc. won\u2019t make me part with them) . Where cd I try to get hold of copies ?\nNo news recently from Captain Fox. I\u2019ve heard a rumour that he is really a British agent and that he is no more an arms dealer than either of us;and that he has been offered but has refused the K.B.E. I suppose \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1409"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford035","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Apr 27th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford35","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Soldier","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford035","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford035.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffhe wants to solider on for another few years and collect something bigger. Baron Fox of Reynard\u2019s Cross ? Quite a guy,isn\u2019t he ?\nLove to you both \u2013\nRobert  \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1410"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford036","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 May 3rd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford36","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"F.B.I, The Waste Land","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford036","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford036.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H P M\n3rd May 1973\nMy dear Derek,\nMany thanks for your card. Was your Northern tour for pleasure/business, or a mixture of both ?\nCapt. Fox may well be on the payroll of the F.B.I. Who knows ? He wasn\u2019t pleased not to appear in Allan Prior\u2019s ONE PAIR OF EYES as he was at the party. I think he has TV ambitions in a mild sort of way. A Spanish ex-student saw me on the box and has told various friends of his in my class,so they think I am a great MAN. (Had I merely written a poem of equivalent to the WASTE LAND, well, that would pass unnoticed. But TV! Incidentally,I found that delectable lady by myself which I think was enterprising of me! )\nI met Peter Porter in the street a couple of weeks ago and had a chat. He\u2019s always very friendly. Yes,he\u2019s on the TLS, as you supposed, so I\u2019ve sent him a few of the Fox poems. But I haven\u2019t much hope of  \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1411"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford037","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 May 3rd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford37","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Arethusa, Edinburgh","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford037","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford037.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff\nanything from the younger generation -\nexcept in Ireland where they like an occas-\nional piece of mine. Still,one travels\nhopefully.\n\nArethusa arrived back in E'burgh last\nFriday. She's working at Kingston x for a\nwhile,then hopes to find another job,\npresumably in Caledonia.\n\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n\nx where Donald Grant now functions as a gardner.\nA change from Eng. lit. + lang.!\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1412"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford038","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Jun 1st","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford38","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Scottish Arts Council","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford038","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford038.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 etc.\nJune 1st 1973,\nMy dear Derek,\nThe Scottish Arts Council has invited me to attend , on June 13, for an interview in E\u2019burgh for post of Writer in Residence in Aberdeen. It\u2019s an appointment for 1 yr at ?2,000. Am keeping fingers crossed. Any suggestions ?\nIn haste.\nLove to you both \u2013\nRobert\nI gave yr name + R.N.\u2019s as references. \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1413"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford039","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Jun 4th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford39","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Aberdeen, Londonderry","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford039","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford039.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 Holland. Park Mews,W. 11.\n\n4th June, xxxx 1973\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks for yr letter and card.\n\nTHE PORTRAIT GAME is based on a book\nI reviewed recently (for B and B ). It\nlooks as if every poem now has to be a\nFox one,though God Knows that little\nenough interest has been shown in them\nexcept by a handful of people of whom you\nare one.\n\nHARROW SONGS sounds xxxxx interesting\nand is probably fairly valuable.\n\nThanks for yr comments re E'burgh\ninterview. I certainly think I cd make a\nsuccess of the Aberdeen post. So we shall\nsee... I wonder whether you'll hear from\nthem. Anyway,it's good that they know\nabout you - and of course they know you\nare a SCOTSMAN stalwart. (Sorry to be\npedantic - I was born in Londonderry not\nB'fast;a much more beautiful and historic\ncity, and - after the xxxxxx recent local\nelections - Now under Catholic control.)\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1414"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford004","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1971 Jan 9th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford4","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"The Old Bell","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford004","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford004.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 62.\n\nFriday.\n\nGlad to see the my review of your \"Critics of the 90's\"\nxxxx in today's Trib.\nUnless I learn to the contrary I'll meet\nyou next Wednesday\n(13th) at \"Old Bell\"\nat 12.15. Love to\nPeggie and yourself\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1379"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford040","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Jun 4th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford40","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Radio 4, Rudyard Kipling","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford040","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford040.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffHad another book this a.m. from Valerie, Geoffrey Trease on D.H.L.\nObvipusly intended for young people.\nI wonder if you listened to Marghantia L\u2019s last programme on Kipling\u2019s poetry \u2013 Radio 4 yesterday. This series was splendid, not only for the quality of the work but the quality and variety of the reading. Not a single poem was badly read and her commentary was discerning. But Kipling \u2013 what a writer!!\nYes, we\u2019ll meet post-E and pre-M.\nLove to you both \u2013\nRobert   \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1415"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford041","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Jun 15th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford41","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Arethusa, Bursary","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford041","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford041.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H P M\n\n15. 6. 73\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks for yrs - it was waiting for me when I returned\nlast night.\n\nI very much appreciate what R.N. said in his letter to you\nabout my application for the Aberdeen job. But I'll get round to\nR.N. later in this letter.\n\nThe interview went splendidly as did everything in connect-\nion with the trip. The xxxxxxxx chairman,Clifford Hanley x,\ncouldn't have been more at-ease-putting. He directed proceedings\nwholly. It lasted for just under half an hour. The official who\n. had written to me and ushered me to and fro was called Trevor\nRoyle, a very charming man of about 30 whom I was to met later in\nthe xxxxxx evening - you will see how in a moment or two.\n\nNow Arethusa. She was waiting for me at Waverley - the train\nwas rather late due to engine failure but I still had time to get\nto the Hotel (where I stayed 1 night) before the interview. She\nhas revealed much more common sense than I supposed she had - she\nwould have rung the Arts Council to say I'd be late if that had\nbeen necessary... I had wondered if she would think of that. Any-\nway, she has improved enormously ever since she went to Kingston\nwhere she gets on well with everyone. I think the improvement is\nmore psychological than due to diet,though the latter may also be\na factor. The work is very hard but she is sticking it. In short,\nwe now get on excellently after quite a long period of consider-\nable difficulty.\n\nNow R.N.-Arethusa and I met xx my old pal Donald Grant for\ndrinks. Donald had to go off: xxxxxx he's just his old self but\nfar more fit thanks to his work as a gardener. Then A and I had a\nmeal after which I rang R.N.,not knowing if he was in town/busy or\nwhat-not as I hadn't heard from him. He said immediately:\" I\nhope you aren't hurrying away.\" The upshot was an invitation to\nhis party that evening to celebrate the Bursary award. Arethusa\ncame ,too - she had seen the Nyes at the performance of his\n\"The Seven Deadly Sins\" in Stirling. The party was delightful. What\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1416"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford042","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Jun 15th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford42","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Pre-Raphaelite, Aberdeen","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford042","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford042.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffa gathering of artists/musicians/intellectuals,none of whom I\nhad previously met - but for Trevor Royle. Now up to that point I\nhad no idea how many candidates for Aberdeen had been interviewed.\nWithout letting any pussy cats out of the bag Royle told me there\nhad been nine,some of whom had come from London. Hanley said at\nthe interview there had been an American applicant but they didn\u2019t\nthink they cd afford to pay his expenses from xxxx Michigan,if he\nwere asked for interview! Royle said the standard had been very\nhigh,adding diplomatically that he wished they had nine jobs going!\nRoyle and I had a very long chat ,and he put me in the picture about\nthe Arts Council up there re literature.\n\nWell,it was wonderful that R.N. had got another Bursary...and\nthat the celebration shd have been on June 13th ...\n\nI note what you tell me about the quote from my TEACHER review\nwhich is appearing on the paperback edn of yr WRITING IN THE 30.' s.\nAlso that you have corrected the proofs of PRE-RAPHAELITE WRITING\nfor Univ Everyman. B and B wrote to me recently asking if I wd.give\npermission for a long quote from my review of Drabble's THE NEEDLE'S\nEYE xxxxx which something called Contemporary Criticism wanted to\nreprint in an annual vol. No payment, but I said yes. B and B\nsaid it was worthwhile having the credits.\n\nDid I tell you I had a very warm letter from Maurice Lindsay\nre Aberdeen,saying to by all means use his name if it would help\netc. (I shd have said earlier that Royle said they didn\u2019t much go on\ncommendation no matter who it came from,so they probably haven't\nwritten to you or R.N.)\n\nSorry that so much space has been taken up with my news about\nScotland... Just in: the latest B and B. in which 3 wise (?) men\nare well-pepresented,these being D.S.,R.N. and R.G.,and in which\nD.S. justly praises R.N., and in which R.N. and R.G. both review\nDavid Garnett.\n\nFinally - YES,next Wednes 12.50 at Gaiety wd be fine.\n\nLove to you both - Robert\n\nCalled at \"Scotsman\" offices + had a chat with Willis Pickard, friendly as ever.n \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1417"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford043","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Jun 16th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford43","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"The Scotsman, Fiction","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford043","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford043.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H P M\nSat., 16th June, 73\nreplied : 18 June\nMy dear Derek,\nYou may have seen the SCOTSMAN today. If so, you will have seen that the job has gone to Archie Hind, the Glasgow novelist. Good luck to the boy! He certainly has a good record of published work. In case you haven\u2019t seen the report ,I quote: \u201cThe selection panel who assessed the 18 candidates for the Aberdeen post were most impressed with their enthusiasm and commitment to the new concept,and already the Council have plans to introduce similar jobs to other areas in Scotland.\u201d\nRead yr fiction review with interest, though I haven\u2019t read any of the books you deal with. I like the way you are quoted as saying: \u201cAngus Wilson wrote brilliant shorter faction\u201d,especially since later you have a sentence that begins: \u201cGive all the facts about a man or woman\u201d. The Scots, and even the Ulster Scots, are great faction fellows, hence our pedantry\u2026\nI enclose a wee cutting from the same  \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1418"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford044","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Jun 16th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford44","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Accent","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford044","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford044.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffissue that speaks of \u201cStanford\u2019s admirable surveys\u201d but the pedant in me cries out for the right French accent in the right place..\nSee you next Wednes as arranged\nLove to you both (factionally an otherwise)\nRobert   \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1419"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford045","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Jul 4th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford45","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Captain Fox","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford045","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford045.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff\nMr + Mrs Derek Stanford\n5 Cricketfield Court,\nCricketfield Rd.,\nSEAFORD,\nSUSSEX,\nINGILTERRA\n\n4th July '73\n\nSome like it Hot!\nEnjoying myself despite setbacks at the beginning.\nGreat hospitality from ex-pupils so. asCaptain Fox says,\nARRIBA ESPANA!\nLove to you both - Robert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1420"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford046","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Jul 11th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford46","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Madrid, Heathrow","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford046","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford046.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 Holland Park Mews,\nW.11.\n11th July \u201873\nreplied : 12 July\nMy dear Derek,\nI had intended to ring you last night to suggest meeting today, if you were coming up, but since my return I\u2019ve been a bit sick \u2013 diarrhoea mainly. I met Patricia for lunch yesterday \u2013 I had a milk shake. See what I mean ? Not yet right, but some of the sick feeling has gone.\nThe trip to Madrid got off to a bad start because the aircraft had to be repaired after an accident at Heath Row. So we arrived 23 hrs late, having spent a night at a hotel near Heath Row. More trouble at the hotel because of not arriving at expected time, but it was all sorted out in the end. After that,everything was wonderful,far,far better than expectations. I always thought the Irish were hospitable (esp the Cath Southern Irish) but the Spanish seem to be more so. Even strangers are extremely helpful and an Englishman at the Hotel gave me one or two instances of this. I was driven  \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1421"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford047","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Jul 11th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford47","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Toledo","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford047","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford047.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffround and entertained by three separate lots of people. They walked me off my feet out of a wish that I could see everything. HIghlights: Prado in Madrid,and everything (El Greco\u2019s house, Cathedral ,Alcazar) in Toledo. Toledo is a living museum in which even the narrowest street is a showpiece. The boys who took me there were Univ students, delightful lads,but I hope never again to walk up and down those hilly streets ,with lots of steps, in blazing sunlight, looking for the place the car had been parked.\nWell,that\u2019s just a short account and I\u2019ll dot some i\u2019s when we meet.\nLet me know when you will be in town and free for lunch.\nLove to you both \u2013\nRobert   \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1422"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford048","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Jul 14th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford48","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Gaiety","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford048","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford048.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 Holland Park Mews, W.11.\n14 July \u201973\nMy dear Derek,\nMany thanks yrs Thurs.\nHave more or less recovered in the last few days. Yes, I used Enterovioform which in fact I took , as recommended, in Spain. As I told you,all was well there,and the damned thing developed on my return. But perhaps it would have been still worse had I not been taking the tablets.\nThurs next, 12.50 \u201cGaiety\u201d, suits me fine.\nI feel very honoured by the dedication to me of PRE-RAPHAELITE WRITING. The inscription is good. I\u2019ll buy a few copies for distribution \u2013 one for Roy, for instance, This pleases me more than wd a dedication in some of the 90\u2019s anthols you have done. Many thanks or,as I learnt in another place, muchas gracias. Delighted,too,that DenT\u2019s are so pleased and are expressing their pleasure not only in words but in cheque book language.\nOne or two literary items to tell you about when we meet\u2026Do you know the work of John Stewart Collins, an Anglo-Irishman ? \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1423"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford049","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Jul 14th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford49","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Cheltenham, America, Madrid","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford049","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford049.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffI\u2019ve reviewed a couple of his recent books and we have corresponded quite a bit. Keen to interview him and have put up the suggestion to Franks for B and B \u2013 but he\u2019s been away ill with food poisoning contracted at Cheltenham. Collis comes from a very distinguished Dublin family,wrote literary studies in his early life and then later switched to a strange amalgam of ecology and philosophy written in an imaginative way. He must be well over 70.\nHow right you are about Capt. Fox. He has his contacts in Spain of course, but he was in S. America when I was in Madrid. Did you know that Franco once granted him an interview ? The most I saw of the General was the outside of his residence at El Pardo on the outskirts of the city.\nTill Thurs, then\u2026\nLove to you both \u2013\nRobert  \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1424"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford005","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford5","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Serious","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford005","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford005.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffsat.\nNo. 62\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nEnjoyed your review\nvery much. A good summing up\nof Simmons who is not x\ndeeply serious (in the best sense)\nbut a clever,sometimes witty\ntrifler. Pa?    seems xxxxxx\nto be more the real thing\n\nLove to you both\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1380"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford050","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Jul 25th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford50","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Peter Porter, Captain Fox","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford050","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford050.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H P M  25 July 73\nMy dear Derek,\nMany thanks for your letter.\nSo glad that Miss Ramage turned out O.K., as I thought she would. I met her when Clifford Dyment\u2019s sister was disposing of some of C\u2019s books and thought she made some quite reasonable offers. She kindly put up a notice about my writing Group.\nPeter Porter seems to have offered us consolation prizes. Better than nowt.\nYou are v. generous in your criticism of the latest Capt. Fox and I appreciate yr detailed comments. Editors at large don\u2019t seem to go overboard for Fox. Some have complimented me but have declined to publish. Still, one keeps on. \u201cThe blood is strong, the heart is Highland\u2026\u201d (My mother\u2019s clan, the Macraes \u2013 \u201cthe wild Macraes\u201d \u2013 were centered on Ross-shire.)\nLove to you both \u2013\nRobert \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1425"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford051","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Aug 11th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford51","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Times Literary Supplement, Banbridge","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford051","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford051.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H P M\n11th August, \u201873\nMy dear Derek,\nThanks for your nice piece of tapestry and yr kind words on the poem. Yes, B and B have spread me around their pages, and you didn\u2019t do so badly y\u2019self. They had a hell of a lot of pieces to use up. British Books News and T.L.S. have sent more novels \u2013 inc a most interesting one that denounces the I.R.A.: Shaun Herron\u2019s THE WHORE-MOTHER. Just as well I am reviewing it anonymously, as the I.R.A. would not thank me for what I have to say. God knows what they might do to Herron.\nRoy has kept me informed of a horrible and surprising event. Freddy Vine has been charged with the manslaughter of his wide (she died last December \u2013 just before Christmas). There have been 2 hearings of the case, in Banbridge (a small town south of B\u2019fast), and the case has been adjourned for a fortnight. Freddy has been remanded on his continuing bail of ?1,000 and his passport confiscated. I wrote to him to say that I hoped he would be acquitted and to \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1426"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford052","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Aug 11th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford52","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Protestant","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford052","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford052.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffAssure him of my best wishes for his welfare. He replied, quite promptly, thanking me and saying that his wife committed suicide and that he had no hand in her death. I know she was a seriously disturbed person for many years, dating to a time before she met Freddy, and has made unsuccessful attempts on her life. I expect this will surprise you as much as it surprised me. I have a letter from F dated July 10 in which he talks of coming to London at the end of July, and says he would like me to find him a hotel room. I have some other information that he sent me a little before that but would prefer to keep it quiet until later \u2013 I haven\u2019t told Roy about this matter either. Will tell you when we meet, and by then the Court may have reached a verdict. Freddy somehow seems to lack the canniness of the Protestant Ulsterman and gets into trouble as easily as a ducks gets its feathers wet.\nLove to you both \u2013\nRobert \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1427"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford053","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Aug 13th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford53","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Black Forest","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford053","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford053.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffMr.+Mrs. Derek Stanford\nC/O Queen's Hotel,\nxxxxxxxx Selborne,\nNr. ALTON,\nHANTS.\nENGLAND\n\n13th August,'74\n\nEverything going along splendid in this delightful little town.\nYesterday we went to the highest point in the Black Forest and\nthen climbed to the Bismarck Monument.\nLove to you both - Robert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1428"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford054","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Aug 16th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford54","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Collected Poems, Spain","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford054","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford054.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H P M\n16th August, \u201873\nreplied 24 Aug\nMy dear Derek,\nMany thanks for your letter and news. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever heard of Ivor Gurney \u2013 he must have published earlier volumes if now he has a vol of COLLECTED POEMS. These geniuses (?) one manages to \u2018miss out\u2019 on, as our American friends say. I have been able to review Shaun Herron\u2019s book both for TLS and BBN. As you say, he is a brave man to have said what he has. I know nothing about him, apart from having seen good reviews of his previous novel, also about Belfast. He\u2019s pretty obviously a Catholic Irishman.\nSurprise that there isn\u2019t a standard critical biog of W.H.Hudson. Perhaps there is, but another book may revive interest. Yr friend doesn\u2019t sound awfully professional, judging from what you say. Anyway, good luck to him. If it is published, I\u2019ll try to get it somewhere, though natural science is not my \u2013 shall I say \u2013 field or even hedgerow. (I give myself high marks, however, for spotting a host/multitude of sunflowers when I was in Spain. YOU and Peggie get \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1429"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford055","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Aug 16th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford55","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Malice","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford055","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford055.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff100% in the Culture Vulture exam, incidentally.\nI think Gillian Dickinson really wants to unload novels on old hands like ourselves , as there are plenty of comers for non-fiction.\nFreddy\u2019s case will be coming up in another week or so. I\u2019d very much like to know how it all started. Freddy is not the most discreet of men; and there is another matter that may have given rise to malice, but it\u2019s too involved to go into. Anyway, I hope he clears himself and then clears out.\nLet me know when you will be in town and free for lunch. \n\nLove to you both \u2013 Robert\n\nHaving lunch with Valerie tomorrow. \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1430"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford056","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Aug 29th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford56","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Pre-Raphaelite","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford056","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford056.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H.P.M.\n29th August '73.\n\nreplied: 21 Aug\n\nMy dear Derek,\nYesterday most interesting.....\nRang Cis Amaral of \"B+B\" who said certainly,\nI could review your \"Pre-Raphelite Writing\"\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1431"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford057","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Aug 29th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford57","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Teetotal","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford057","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford057.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff\nbut that no copy had arrived.\nShe said she would ask Dent's\nto send a copy direct to me. So....\nStill teetotal. Have taken up \"Coca- Cola\".\nVice and self indulgence will out.\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1432"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford058","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Sep 3rd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford58","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"34 Years","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford058","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford058.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H.P.M.   3rd Sept, '73\n(Or 34 years on!)\n\nDouglas says 'yes' but he hasn't had a copy.\nWhat are dent's playing at, I wonder....\nDidn't say it was redirected to me.\nHe said, incidentally, hehadn't \"forgotten\"\nabout me...\nLove to you both - Robert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1433"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford059","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Sep 4th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford59","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Quebec, Bombs, Belfast","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford059","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford059.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffGlad to hear about yr Quartier Latin idea. Sounds attractive.\n36 H P M\n4th Sept, \u201873\nMy dear Derek,\nMany thanks for card (postmarked 1 Sept and delivered 4 Sept \u2013 despite 3p stamp).\nSo it\u2019s early Oct\u2026Well, that explains why review copies hadn\u2019t been sent out when I enquired at B and B Trib.\nQuebec  St. Perhaps it was the Quebecois Freedom Fighters not the Provos. You notice that the East End underworld is learning about bombs. Listening to programme about \u201941 \u2013 sirens and bombs crashing. I think the media blew up the recent bombs into something too big when one thinks of what happened during the Blitz. (The 2 big blitzes on Belfast accounted for about 600 dead, fewer than have been killed in the past 4 years.)\nHope the good weather lasts for your holiday. Love to you both \u2013\nRobert \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1434"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford006","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1971 Jul 21st","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford6","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Hibernia","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford006","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford006.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 62 \n\nJuly 21st '71\n\nOn your advice, I sent \u201cONE MUST GO\u201d to \u201cT.L.S.\u201d Rejected.\nNext tried \u201cHibernia\u201d and have had  an acceptance by return of post.\nSo \u2013 thanks for the encouragement. The Irish Repub. has just issued an\nattractive J.M.Synge stamp to mark his centenary.\nCan't hope for that until xx 2020!! We also serve.\nLove to you both \u2013 Robert.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1381"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford060","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Sep 19th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford60","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Poem","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford060","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford060.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H.P.M.  19/Sept/73\n\nMany thanks for card from Brockenhurst.\nI hope you find the Braybrookes well.\nYes, I saw that extraordinary poem by Robt N.\nWhat a strange imagination he has anh how wide-ranging!\nThere's little he writes that one can't admire.\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1435"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford061","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Sep 25th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford61","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Christchurch","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford061","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford061.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H.P.M\n25th Sept. '73\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nThanks for p.c. from Christchurch.\nHope you enjoyed the trip.\nHad a cheque from T.L.S.\nRate of payment is \u00a315.00 per 1000\n\nFreddy writes to say that the outlook\nis brighter and that he has engaged a\nfirst-class barrister. What a business!\n\nLove to you both - Robert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1436"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford062","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Oct 4th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford62","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"W.H. Auden","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford062","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford062.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 Holland. Park Mews,W.ll.\n\n4 Oct 73\nwe met on 5 Oct\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks for your comments on\nthe poem. I have considered them care-\nfully and, as a result,omitted 1.2,which\ncuts out some of the Norse business and\nthe half-pun Odin','Auden'. I'll try it\non Douglas though he,like most editors,\nsays he likes some of my poems but won't\nprint them. Probably if one gets out of\nthe swim it's harder to get in again than\nif one appears as Bill Snooks from\nNewcastle-above-Slime or somewhere. I might\ntry a pseudonym and have poems posted from\nthe provinces - or Camden Town.\n\nYes,I very much feel Auden's loss. He\nwas the greatest . A nice xx guy,too.\n\nWhat news from Dent's ? Hope to see\nyou soon - and possibly on United Nations\nDay (Oct 24) which I always celebrate!\n\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1437"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford063","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Oct 17th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford63","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Tribune, County Cork","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford063","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford063.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff3 6 H P M\n\n17 Oct 73\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks for the letter\n\nAs for the TRIB it is only what you deserve. I think you\nhave done a splendid job with \"P-R W\" , and am really delighted xx\nthat you should have done me the honour you have. Capt. Fox has\nexamined the book and pronounced it O.K. and if he thinks so,well.\n\nNow I'm working on a long piece for B and B - it will run\nto 1,300 or l,400 words - early on I make it clear the book is\ndedicated to me. Frank said nothing about length! By the way,I'm\nincorporating that tip you gave me in yr letter.\n\nAs you say,we have certainly had a long friendship during\nwhich each of us has helped the other - and long may it last.\nBefore the old man shouts x\"Come on,Bob,you\u2019re next!\" I\u2019d like to\nwrite a long essay on your work. America might he more welcoming\nfor such an effort than here. Let me have reactions some time.\n\nMy \u201cwee child\" will be heading again for Edinburgh on Friday after\na few weeks with her mum in Co.Cork. She writes that P has taken\nup \"Transcendental Meditation\" and so has she. Meditaters of the\nworld unite,you have nothing to lose but your tensions.She says:\n\"The first few days I felt a bit hostile and resentful towards\nMummy but that has worn off. I find it relaxing and feel I\u2019d like\nto he more creative.\" If she only tried,what a splendid satirical\nnovel Arethusa could write about her parents!... Anyway,we shall\nsee what xxx we shall see. I once asked her:\"Have you ever felt\nyou'd like to write?\" and she answered \"No!\"\n\nYes,12.30 on U.N.Day (24th) at Gaiety wd be fine. See you.\n\nLove to both - Robert\n\nP.S.\nDo you remember my telling you about Belfast friends who left for\nCanada last Christmas, arrived back disillusioned in Sept. and\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1438"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford064","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Oct 17th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford64","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Somerset, Northern Ireland Arts Council","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford064","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford064.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffhave now taken refuge in Somerset (where that shit Waugh lives)\nnear taunton ? They are friends of my schoolfriend in belfast, xxx\nhow I met them some 7 or 8 years ago. They LOVE Somerset and\neverything is working out for them - jobs etc. Haldane has a law\ndegree,is 60 and has had experience in Hospital admin work and xxxx\nbefore that in the forerunner of the N.I. Arts Council. They are\nboth keen on the arts, and very lively. They have kindly asked me\nto spend Christmas with them and I\u2018ve accepted,as I don\u2019t think\nI'd care to risk Belfast. My other friends there,the Baxters,are\ninvited,too,but haven't yet deciced.\n\nR\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1439"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford065","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Oct 25th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford65","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"H. Montgomerry Hyde","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford065","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford065.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 Holland Park Mews, London, W.11.\n25th October 1973\nreplied, 27 Oct\nMy dear Derek,\nLunch yesterday was a great joy \u2013 and all the more so for the present \u2013 and of course the lucky green frog that is not jumping all over the carpet\u2026 and gradually turning ORANGE.\nI have written to John Rotheroe and suggested Carson. It would certainly sell in N.I. Here is a draft of the opening bit which I\u2019ve just finished this minute. Don\u2019t think there is any lack of material on Carson \u2013 H.Montgomery Hyde did a biography some years ago. And there\u2019s a lot of material about Carson the lawyer \u2013 Oscar Wilde (whom he knew at T.C.D.) prosecution etc. Thanks for putting me on to Shire. Comments appreciated.\nI rang Valerie today. She told me she hasn\u2019t had a copy of yr P.R.W. Perhaps it has gone direct to her reviewer \u2013 I think you know who is doing it there, don\u2019t you ?\nThe house is full of Tibetans here for the Dalai Lama\u2019s visit. May the Presbyterian God protect me !\nLove to you both \u2013\nRobert \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1440"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford066","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Oct 29th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford66","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Edward Carson, Oscar Wilde","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford066","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford066.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 36\n29th October, \u201873\nMy dear Derek,\nI re-read yr letter and then saw the P.S. Certainly, I\u2019d be v. pleased to help with B.M. research. Let me know the details.\nI got a big parcel of assorted books from Frank a few days ago \u2013 the first for a couple of months. Expect he wanted to work off those reviews he had.\nYes, if Shire prefer an impersonal approach I can as easily do it that way. Anyway, that was about the only personal reference I intended. I can hardly give a first-hand impression of Carson\u2019s cross-examination of Oscar Wilde!\nInteresting that you had tea with Kay D the other day. She helped me a lot \u201cwhen I was four-and-twenty\u201d \u2013 my first book is dedicated to het. Glad to hear John S is well and prosperous.\nLove to you both \u2013\nRobert \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1441"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford067","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Oct 29th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford67","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Captain Fox","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford067","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford067.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffDerek Stanford Esq.,\n5Cricketfield Court'\nCricketfield Rd.,\nSEAFORD,\nSussex\n\nNo. 36\n29th OCT.'73\n\nMany thanks for your letter\n+ comments on Carson\nintro. Noted. Gave\nyour P.R.W. to\nPaulette at w/e.\nPleased! Capt. Fox.\njoins me in extending\nlove to you + P.\n- Robt.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1442"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford068","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Nov 2nd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford68","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Hibernia, Goethe, Captain Fox","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford068","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford068.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H P M\n2/11/1973 replied : 5 Nov\nMy dear Derek,\nThe enclose from John Rotheroe will explain itself. Please return.\nHere\u2019s a photocopy of \u201cThe Captain in Spain\u201d, slightly revised. HIBERNIA have consistently published me for two or three years \u2013 and they seem to like the Fox sequence, God bless \u2018em. I sent the one about Goethe to Robt N. who saw it a few months ago and told me to return it if it didn\u2019t find a home elsewhere.\nHIBERNIA had a special offer for 12 issues, so I\u2019ve subscribed for you. You won\u2019t like their politics, but have a look at the book reviews. Let me know of the arrival of yr 1st copy. This is, shall we say, a pre-Christmas \u2013 a Hallowe\u2019en \u2013 present. Members of the Capt. Fox Society must be looked after.\nKeep the aspidistra flying while you\u2019re coming up for air on animal farm in 1984!! Whatever has that come into my head for ?\nLove to you both\n- Robert  \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1443"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford069","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Nov 7th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford69","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Books and Bookmen","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford069","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford069.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H P M\n7.11.73\nMy dear Derek,\nMany thanks for letter of 5th.\nGood to hear that your picture will appear on B and B cover. Probably for the issue dated January. Quite a nice boost.\nLet me know about B.M. research.\nHaving lunch with Valerie on Friday, her trip to Israel having been cancelled,\nLove to you both \u2013 Robert   \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1444"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford007","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1972 Mar 13th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford7","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Compulsive, Holbrook","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford007","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford007.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 62\n\n13 March 1972\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nYes,indeed,David H is hardly what one xxxxx\nmight call lucid. He\u2019s a compulsve writer; and\ncompulsive writing often makes hard reading.\nI tried to read the pamphlet but gave up. Lord,\nI am not (intellectually) worthy.\n\nWell,to take the Holbrookian xxxxxxxxxx\ntaste out of your (literary) mouth I enclose a\nsmall selection from one Simmons. I don\u2019t greatly\nadmire him,but I\u2019ve read worse; and at least I\nknow what he\u2019s getting at.\n\nI wonder if that note about W.H.A. will\nstimulate controversy.\n\nWhat did yr bookseller think of the\nGascoyne offering ?\n\nLove to you both-\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1382"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford070","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Nov 14th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford70","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Hamish Hamilton","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford070","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford070.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H.P.M.   14 Nov. '73 replied 17 Nov. 73\n\nYes, as I thought, Kathleen Raine's FAREWELL HAPPY FIELDS\nis published by Hamish Hamilton (15th Nov.)\nRoy will like yr note..... Capt. Fox. was invited to the\nwedding today but couldn't make it, unfortunately.\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1445"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford071","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Nov 16th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford71","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Hibernia, Tribune, Times Literary Supplement","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford071","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford071.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H P M\n16. 11.73\nMy dear Derek,\nI\u2019ve been reading the new HIBERNIA and, as frequently, think that John Broderick\u2019s fiction review is the best piece in the paper. I\u2019d be interested to hear your opinion. Haven\u2019t seen anything by Broderick on any subject other than novels, but am very taken both by his judgments and wit. Most of the others seem worthy but dull. Don\u2019t know who Broderick is or his background, but think I once saw that he lectures on Eng Lit at T.C.D. or U.C.D. Anyways, I\u2019d like to know how you react.\nSent you a photocopy of the TRIB notice and was glad to see the book advertised in today\u2019s TLS. Ran into our sex kitten (?) yesterday at Gaston\u2019s and had a drink with her. She recited a couple of poems that were quite funny \u2013 frightfully clever, and I told her about an erotic dream. Then she confessed that yr book had gone to the wrong person, which of course you already know.\nI saw in the current TRIB why I \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1446"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford072","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Nov 16th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford72","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Bevanite, Socialist","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford072","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford072.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffI haven\u2019t been getting books to any extent in the last few months. They\u2019ve got back to their old contributor in Belfast. He had a row with them Eliz T\u2019s time which is why she switched to me for Irish polit books. He\u2019s an old-time Bevanite type and is now back in the fold, bleating away in the approved manner. Exit R.G. whose baa-ing was somewhat lacking in Socialist fervor. It will of course mean a severe financial loss, won\u2019t it ?\nLove to you both \u2013\nRobert \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1447"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford073","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Nov 26th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford73","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Francis Stuart, Fuel Crisis","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford073","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford073.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H PM\n\n26 Nov 73\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks for your letter.\n\nYr impressions of Broderick are very\ninteresting. I don't think he has a\nPhilistine aspect - e.g. his xxxxxx praise\nfor Francis Stuart's latest novel.\n\nDidn't know about Cis Amaral/replacing\nFrank G B. I've had sane long conversat-\nions with her on the phone,and also met\nher a couple of times. She seems very\ncapable and more on the ball xxxxx than F.\n\nIs the fuel crisis hitting you ?\nHeating etc. ? No xxxx difference here -\nso far .... Looks like an economic Dunkirk\n\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1448"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford074","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Dec 7th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford74","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Emigrate, Australia","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford074","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford074.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 Holland Park Mews, W.11.\n7th December, \u201873\nMy dear Derek,\nThanks letter.\nThanks, too, for the kind remarks about \u201cWee Jimmy\u201d which I think is now much better than the original version. There are of course the Irish papers, but nobody here sees them. I think nobody here will take on a \u2018has been\u2019. It would probably be better never to have written a line back in the 40\u2019s. Peter Porter turns down everything I send with great respect, but a no is still a no. Most discouraging, one soldiers on.\nHave you applied to emigrate to Australia/NZ/SA ? Yes, indeed, if I had anywhere to go to, I\u2019d go! Shall not bore you with my views on the economic situation, but they are probably similar to yours. A bad time for optimists.\nLove to you both\nRobert \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1449"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford075","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Dec 22nd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford75","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Blackstaff Press, Denis Ireland, From the Jungle of Belfast","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford075","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford075.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H P M\n\nThursday\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks for yrs. I take it that yr\nsuggestion is for lunch today week. Don't\nthink I'll be xxxx back. Am going to\nSomerset on Saturday and they have asked me\nto stay a week,so won't be back unless\nsomething crops up. One also doesn't know\nabout trains. I suppose these days one can\nonly rely on the phone for making arrange-\nments.\n\nHave just had a Blackstaff bookx,sent\nby my old friend in Belfast, Denis Ireland,\nxx now nearly 80 and writing better than\never. It's called,topically but a little\nmisleadingly,FROM THE JUNGLE OF BELFAST,as\nhe deals with xxxxxxxxxxxx War Service\nin Greece during the First World War and\ngives his impressions of the U.S. A most\nvivid series of descriptive pieces. He's\ngood on life in a bourgeois family pre-14.\nI'm doing a review for B and B.\n\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n\n x he touted the lds.round publishers for years.\nI thought he'd never make it.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1450"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford076","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Dec 27th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford76","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Captain Fox","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford076","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford076.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffMr. + Mrs.\nDerek Stanford,\n5 Cricketfield Court,\nCricketfield Rd,\nSEAFORD,\nSussex\n\n27th December 1973\n\nYesterday we - all 5 of us- x went\nto Wells + Glastonbury.\nDelightful, though the sky was rather grey.\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n\nx including Capt. Fox\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1451"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford077","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Dec 30th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford77","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Ealing","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford077","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford077.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H.P.M.\n\n30-12-73\nMy dear Derek,\nGot back yesterday - no trouble getting back but\na hell of a journey going (go-slow + the accident at West Ealing).\nHere's the latest \"H.U.\" - as eccentric as ever. Love to you both\n+ good wishes for '74.\nRobert\n\nP.T.O\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1452"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford078","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Dec 30th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford78","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"The Joy of Sex","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford078","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford078.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffAccording to today's SUNDAY TIMES,\nAlex Comfort's \"The Joy of Sex\" has\nbeen on the U.S. bestseller list\nfor 54 weeks.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1453"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford079","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jan 4th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford79","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Honest Ulsterman, Malcolm Lowry, Gallery Press","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford079","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford079.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 Holland Park Mews, W.11.\n4th Jan \u201874\nMy dear Derek,\nMany thanks for yrs of 3rd.\nQuite agree with yr assessment of Ewart. He really excels in sexy satirical-fantasy. A nice lad, too. And a kind of Hon. Ulsterman (Honest of otherwise) .\nMy friend in S.F. has sent me a big biography of Malcolm Lowry. What a boy! He out-Dylans D.T. in some ways: drink, violence, scrapes with the police. But it was all dispersed over several countries. Lowry seemed to be proving that anything a Celt could do an Englishman also could.\nGlad you found the new Fox intriguing. The Captain is a dark horse indeed. Now since I last wrote I had a letter from one Peter Fallon who runs the Gallery Press in Dublin. I\u2019d read about their books of poetry in the IRISH TIMES. I sent him 12 Fox poems plus about 20 others (almost all written in the last 2 or 3 yrs). Back they all came with expression of deep regret, partly because of commitments and \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1454"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford008","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1972 Aug 7th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford8","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Refuge","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford008","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford008.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffTel. 727 9326\n\n36 Holland Park Mews\nLondon\nW. 11\n\n7 Aug 1972\n\nIn the fight of R.G. v the Property\nExpoliters (that will do,but I meant\nExploiters) the latter have won hands down.\nR.G. 's new refuge - at over 50% increase\nin rent - as above. Love to you both -\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1383"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford080","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jan 4th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford80","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Captain Fox, Vitality, Gaiety","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford080","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford080.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffpartly because of the actual poems. He obviously didn\u2019t care for the non-Fox poems about which he says not a word. He writes: \u201cI do very much like the Captain Fox sequence. There\u2019s a lightness and vitality about it that is most enjoyable. However twelve poems would, I think, hardly be enough to even think of as enough for a book. Do toy see the sequence as complete ? Or might there be additions to it ?\u201d He suggests that if I don\u2019t get another publisher I should \u201cspeak at a later date about the Captain\u2019s poems\u201d. He tells me that when he comes to London he stays with Brian Paten in Holland Park Gdns and hopes to meet me. The letter is pretty fulsome, with handwritten p.s. etc. though no mention whatever of the other poems. Well, I\u2019ve replied to say that the sequence is on-going and that I wrote another poem recently. I\u2019m craftily taking 2 other poems and turning them into Fox pieces. Which means I really have 15 now. What I like is that, whether Fallon ever publishes me or not, he\u2019s another voice cheering the Capitain along. Yes, do let me have the name of the little mag that might want one or two.\nJust getting out of the dark tunnel I\u2019ve been through, thanks to one of my king-size colds \u2013 contracted in the West Country and developed to nth degree in London. What a miserable New Year, reading about Lowry\u2019s misfortunes, listening to the radio version of the country\u2019s woes and pouring out mucus by the bucket\u2026. Will most probably be able to make it next Wed (9th) at Gaiety as suggested.\nLove to you both \u2013\nRobert \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1455"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford081","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jan 17th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford81","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Peggie, Nigeria, Ulster","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford081","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford081.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H P M\n\n17 1 74\n\nMy dear uerek,\n\nThanks for yrs and congratulations to you and Peggie xxx on the\nventure that began 11 years ago - may it last very,very long!\nAnd congrats, too, to you,/u>, for getting such a fine notice in TES. I've\nseen the name of John Russell Taylor here and there as a reviewer\nbut don't know his books, A stout fellow. Why don't you send him a\nnote ? (NOT a Treasury one - you know what I mean...)\nme\n\nToo late for me to wish Jack godspeed in Nigeria...\n\nFox Productions roll on,and still another has come off the xxxxxx\nassembly line called \"Midwinter, W.11\"(no 3 day week in that>/u> factory).\nI accept your suggested deletion in \"Knowing and Not Knowing\". My old friend in\nBelfast,Denis Ireland,always says the Ulster writer has to guard\nagainst a characteristic fault - not knowing that the job is\nfinished and putting in a bit more to make sure. He's right.\nI'll think about \"shitty\" in the Haiku.\n\nRoy writes - a characteristic letter. \"McF's Worst Xmas\" - \"I\nwrites most weekends. Pomes maturing with the plentiful dung.\"\n\"I am chary about 2 many words. I am parsimonious because I am\ngenerous. My words spill and I gather them up like turds and weewee\nand put them away and hoard another day.\" \"Have they hanged Fred\nbehind our backs ? because I haven't heard hint or xxxxxx hilt\nof him since he was arraigned.\" (hint or hilt - i.e. news). Very\nentertaining. But I think Roy has been having a pretty bad time one\nway and another.\n\nNice letter today from Peter Fallon,along with 3 Gallery Press\nbooklets (one by Pearse Hutchinson). Well produced - 2 of the 3 with\nthe assistance of the Arts Council of Ireland (i;e. the Dublin-\nbased one) which means that Fallon has some pull with the Establish-\nment. Says he will look me up when in London.\n\nAnd here I must end - Fox,TLS,students etc. are calling.\nLove to you both - Robert\n\n P.S. No payment from B+B for Nov.\nor Dec. contributions, despite letters and phone calls!\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1456"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford082","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jan 25th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford82","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Edwardian, Artillery Mansions","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford082","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford082.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H.P.M.\n\nreceived 25\n26th January,'74\nreplied 25 Jan\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks for yr letter - hope yr cold has passed as quickly\nas hoped for.\n\nI had lunch yesterday with Cis Amaral,a very pleasant woman -\nthis was a kind of thank-you for getting me a cheque,though I'm still\nnot paid up to date. She wd like to meet you and so would her assist-\nant,an agreeable young man - Gareth xxxxxxxx Marshallsea (2 L's in\nhis name,one I've never seen before - xxxxxxxxx as indeed Amaral).\nI took it on myself to invite both of them to lunch in our joint\nnames. Wednesday sometime,I suggested. What do you think ? They both\nstrike me as reliable people:the young fellow asked me if I wd like\ncopies,for instance,and immediately got what I asked for and suggested\nI shd leave my other stuff with  them and collect it all later. It was\nall waiting for me when I went back to the office. None of the\nGerard Werson cleverness but good old-fashioned common sense. We went\nto a pub across the road which is pleasantly Edwardian though not\ngood value. There's an Italian restaurant just beside the entrance\nto Artillery Mansions and I suggest we try it as a foursome.\n\nRead with pleasure yr notice of Eobt Armstrong's book (I\nreviewed it for Valerie). Have paused to reread it  it: means yr review not\nArmstrong's bloody book!\nHeaven knows,talent is rare, as poet or critic,but a man can at least\nget the bloody titles and dates right! Suggest that Armstrong shd write a\nnew book called \"Freedom from Talent and How It May Be Achieved \".\n(As for the Roy Campbell episode,his account is a load of--------)\n\nNow for Foxing. I very much appreciate yr comments and detailed\ntextual emendations. I've acted on most of these. Thank Peggie for\nher suggestion of an active verb. The verb has been activated.\nFox is a great man for activity. I enclose new versions. There are 21\npieces now,though I have cheated: one is a Haiku and xxxxxxx\npiece consists of random notes. Now I must look at them as a series\nand do a wee bit of polishing,perhaps. Then look for what John Atkins\nused to call a 'rubbisher'.\n\nThat's all the noo.\n\nLove to you both - Robert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1457"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford083","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jan 25th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford83","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Caxton Hall","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford083","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford083.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffreplied 29 Jan\n36 H P M  28.1.74\nAny chance of seeing you on Thurs at WAG meeting ,Caxton Hall ? Shd be interesting. Can\u2019t get to the lobbying earlier because of class which doesn\u2019t end until 6.45. Keep the home fires (slightly) burning\u2026\nLove to you and P\nRobert \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1458"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford084","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jan 26th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford84","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Hegel","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford084","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford084.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffDerek Stanford Esq,\n5 Cricketfield Court'Cricketfield Road'\nSEAFORD,\nSussex\n\n36 H.P.M, 26-1-74\n\nMany thanks for your letter. Yes, Tuesday - any\nTuesday would suit me. So let me know - I'll ring\nC.A. ...\nYou're right - I've started the piece on Hegel\n(you note the link between it + the very first\n\"Captain Fox\"). Good to hear about \"Pre-R.W\"\nreview. Some reviewers xx feel obliged\nto have a sting-in-the-tail. I'm prejudised perhaps,\nbut \"Pre-R.W.\" is your best + xxxxxx\nscholarly text. Love to you both\n-Robert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1459"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford085","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jan 29th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford85","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Commuter, Yorkshire, Glasgow, Communist","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford085","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford085.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H P M\n29.1.74\nMy dear Derek,\nThanks for the letter.\nSorry to hear you have had such travel difficulties, though I\u2019m not surprised. The London commuter belt has taken more punishment in recent years than any other area in the country. It\u2019s partly the commuters own fault as, unlike you, they behave like sheep and will take any amount of inconvenience without protest. I don\u2019t think they\u2019d take it quite so quietly up in Yorkshire \u2013 or Glasgow. But this willingness to make a virtue out of \u2018taking it\u2019 (i.e. not getting what you are reasonably entitled to get) is widespread and makes the job of the Left extremists much easier. Make no mistake \u2013 what is going on has been carefully, even skillfully organised. They are out to destroy society as we have known it, and they may possibly succeed. If I even hint at this to anyone, they think I\u2019m a fanatic, unbalanced etc. Remember how the DAILY EXPRESS had a headline a day or two before Sept.3 \u201939: THERE WILL BE NO WAR. Optimistic, yes; total unreality, no !\nAt the branch where I work there is a Communist who persistently stirs up trouble against the Head of Dept. \u2013 urges support for NUT strikes \u2013 marching in the streets etc. That\u2019s small-scale stuff but those like him are working \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1460"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford086","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jan 29th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford86","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Rudyard Kipling, Ian Paisley, Independent Scotland","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford086","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford086.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffjust as hard and with more success in the Unions. WE know it but what % of the population has any idea of what\u2019s going on ? \n\nBroke off to listen to a reading of KIPLING\u2019s HIS WEDDED WIFE. Brilliant. I\u2019d like to see R.K.\u2019s poem on The Crisis! \n\nCan well understand your reluctance to travel to the GT Wen. Yes, Tues 19 Feb O.K. for lunch. Do you want me to invite the B and B couple of not ? If so, suggest we meet at their office. During The Crisis of course one realizes that arrangements can only be provisional. \n\nI see that old Paisley is turning into an Ulster Nationalist. He says that since BR doesn\u2019t want the Ulster Protestants any longer they\u2019d better think of setting up their own state tho\u2019 he still does not want union with the South. That\u2019s a U-turn, but understandable. R.G.\u2019s suggestion: a union of an independent Scotland and N.I. (to be called Greater Scotland.) I\u2019ll have to talk to Fox about that. He\u2019s busy organising his Patriotic Front \u2013 won\u2019t give me any details \u2013 says I talk too much about him. Love to you both \u2013\nRobert \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1461"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford087","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Feb 5th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford87","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Churchillian, Violence","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford087","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford087.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H P M\n5 Feb 74\nMy dear Derek,\nMany thanks for your letter.\nI\u2019ve fixed up with Cis and Gareth that we shall go to the B and B offices at 12.30 on Friday, Feb.15. If trains are not running etc., well, we\u2019ll just call it off. Heavens knows what will be happening by then \u2013 perhaps the Tube boys will striking, too.\nI agree with what you say. Personally I have no confidence in Heath\u2019s management of the country. Which does not mean any sympathy with the deliberate wreckers and stirrers-up of trouble. But really Heath isn\u2019t a big enough man for a job that needs Churchillian type. Worse still, who is big enough in any of the Parties ? I feel very gloomy at the prospect ahead. Perhaps if the situation runs to a standstill or worse (riots etc) the Army will be used. There are senior officers \u2013 Brig. Kitson an outstanding one \u2013 who are prepared for urban strife; and they have the experience of the last few years in N.I. behind them.\nThe English have no tradition of violence like the Cath. Irish, and outbreaks of violence could probably be crushed fairly \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1462"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford088","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Feb 5th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford88","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"French","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford088","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford088.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffeasily. Even so, the economic damage to the country will be immeasurable. Can you see the Germans, French etc., wanting to buy our goods ? Yes, I think we are all in for some very rude shocks.\nRang Valerie this a.m. She says she has to cut down on entertaining and, like everyone, complains of the increasing difficulties. Says her Drabble book is supposed to come out in July.\nWe are being converted to sea gas. Needless to say, the parts that should have arrived have no arrived. Water has mysteriously got into a cupboard and soaked some of my shirts. Life! life! life! My shares gains have been wiped out by recent falls. The list of bad news is endless, but here I shall end\u2026.\nLove to you both \u2013\nRobert  \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1463"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford089","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Feb 10th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford89","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"The Sunday Times, W.B. Yeats, James Joyce","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford089","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford089.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H P M\n10.2.74\nMy dear Derek,\nEnc cutting from today\u2019s S.TIMES about J H-S. Perhaps yoU\u2019ve already seen it.\nI wonder how you feel about the Gen. Election. Enoch started off the campaign with a lovely bombshell! I see the Ulster Prod extremists want him to lead them, but I think he\u2019s after bigger prizes. Capt. Fox has been trying to brainwash me , as usual. He keeps quoting Yeats on democracy : \u201cthis filthy modern tide\u201d, and remind me that democracy doesn\u2019t work even in the country that gave rise to the name. He hopes that his friend Brigadier Kitson will eventually take over when we are starving /heatless/lightless/bookless.\nEaling Adult Edn authority have asked me to take a 20th cent lit class starting in Sept. I suggest Yeats, Joyce, V. Woolf, Shaw, Wells, Eliot (not many democrats among that lot!) and wd like to discuss. This will be with Eng students, mainly retired people, it seems.\nP.T.O. \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1464"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford009","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1972 Nov 4th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford9","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Nobel Prize, Captain Fox","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford009","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford009.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffthirty-six H P M\n\n4    Nov 1972\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks for letter and card.\n\nI am glad to have your approval of my reply to J.C. I refuse to\nadmire even a xxxx Nobel prizeman's non-existent clothes (why the\nhell didn't I think of saying that in the reply ? L'esprit a'escalier\nI seem to be offending authors and publishers right and left these\ndays. You prob saw that my enemy of earlier this year,Auberon W,\nand PRIVATE EYE have to pay damages and costs to Nora Beloff. I wish\nI could snare him into libelling me.\n\nRe the Mass of Christ. I quite understand your difficulty. I have\ndilly-dallied and 'swithered' as usual about plans,though partly\nbecause other people haven't replied to letters. On the whole, think\nI won't go to Belfast and will go to Scotland in New Year. If\nSeaford is possible,fine. If not,I can spend Christmas with the\nGillespies - the only penalty being to endure Leslie on politics\nand literature!!\n\nCONGRATULATIONS on the St. James cheque. I see that Good Boys\nget served first. Bad Boys who cry \"I MUST have seme pudding J\"go\nto the end of the queue. A True Story of Good Derek and Bad Robert\nand How One Was Rewarded and the Other Punished.\n\nYes,indeed the Gaiety at about 12.50 on xxxx Wed.-Nov.15 would\nbe fine. Perhaps whoever is first would go inside and grab a table.\nBut I realise you will have to confirm this meeting.\n\nGlad you like the new envs \"with their violet innards\".\n\nFinally,Capt. Fox rides again.-. in the current issue of\nHIBERNIA which prints \"The Death of Capt. Fox\" - the one about how\nhe was knocked down by a Peugeot in Zurich. But YOU know what\nHIBERNIA readers don't - it was his double who was killed... So\nthat makes 2 in print and a 3rd to come in the HONEST ULSTERMAN.\n\nI enclose a nice poem by Roy which is in the same issue - there's\na double-spread of Autumn Poetry,about 15 poems mainly by the\nyounger lads. I am probably the eldest ,followed by Roy (he's a\nyear younger than me).\n\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:09","Nid":"1384"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford090","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Feb 27th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford90","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Gollancz, Northern Ireand Arts Council, Books and Bookmen","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford090","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford090.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffCutting enc. May interest you. Please return.\n\n3 6 H P M\n\n27 ii 74\nreplied:28\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks. Your list of poetry publishers\nplus comments is exactly what I was hoping for.\nI can\u2019t believe that Gollancz will say YES,so\nI\u2019m wondering who to try next. A possible might\nbe the Blackstaff Press in Belfast which is\nputting out good work,but the trouble is that\nover here they don\u2019t carry any weight. They\nsometimes get a grant to help with a book from\nN.Ireland Arts Council (as they did in the case o\nof Denis Ireland\u2019s book which I review in the\ncurrent B and B ). Anyway, Derek, many thanks.\n\nStill no cheque from B and B,despite repeated\nrequests. Still not paid for Nov /Dec. Frank\nwas hard to pin down to anything but xxxxxxxxx\nresponded better to my frenzied appeals...\n\nI'm sure John Border had quite a tale to\ntell. As has Freddy Vine. F has written to me a\ncouple of times since his acquittal - hopes to\nholiday in Cornwall and I got some information\nfor him about hotels. Letter from Roy today.\nQuote:\n\nYesterday I emerged from my office and was\ngrasped by someone not immediately recognis-\nable. FRED. He is bloated beyond recognition.\nMany of his teeth xxxxxxxx have gone;those\nremaining are black. --Did you see I won my\ncase,he asked jauntily,as if he had been\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1465"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford091","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Feb 27th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford91","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Finnegans Wake, The Irish Times","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford091","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford091.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffthe prosecutor and not within a\nwhisker of getting nine years. He was\ncarrying a cardboard box - probably\nempty like the briefcase he used to\ncarry daring the divorce proceedings.\n\nThis sounds like the opening of a short story,\ndoesn't it ? Roy then says he thinks F is back\nto the state of mind he was in during that 3 year\nperiod in London before his second marriage. Quote:\n\nI would think some sort of retreat is necessary\nwhere he could use his talent for translating -\nsay - Finnegans Wake into Hebrew,or any other\nlanguage that would occupy his mind for the rest\nof his days. I was surprised at my feeling of\nwarmth for him during our chat. I suppose he is\nas much a victim as the deceased wife.\n\nMost of R's letter is lit chit-chat, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx\nbut one para reads:\n\nWollies got it yesterday. I was passing just\nbefore the bombs exploded.\n\nRoy\u2019s a cool customer. (Woolies of course is\nWoolworths,as you probably guessed.)\n\nA relative of mine living near Dublin,one\nWalter Greacen (about 35) has sent me a copy of our\nfamily \"tree\" plus a lot of details of the family.\nMost interesting. He writes a bit and I am urging him\nto do a short history. Our common ancestor was a\nGeorge Grierson from Scotland,but Walter thinks his\nown grandfather and mine were brothers. Walter saw my\naddress in the IRISH TIMES appended to my letter.\nAn odd spin-off. Also, the lady I repremanded for her attack\non my dead friend wants to meet me when she comes to London\nshortly.\n\nLibs. Good for you! Delighted by Lib ratings in the polls.\nFox has been at work.\nLove to you both -\nRobert \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1466"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford092","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Mar 2nd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford92","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Books and Bookmen, Ulster-Scot","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford092","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford092.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff3 6 H P M\n\n2nd March ,\u201974\nreplied: 4Mar\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks for yrs.\n\nYes, indeed, you have caught the infection\nfrom me. You have written a very sound and\nforceful letter to B and B (on yr advice I\nshall write them a rather forceful letter,too)\nabout that Cornish broth-of-a-boy. \"Belly\ngnosis\" is splendid - and so is \"...there are\nmore xxxxx ways than one of being anti-liberal\nand anti-rationalistic\". Yes: I am anti-liberal\nyet pro-Liberal,and perhaps you are,too. I do\nhope your letter goes in - I\u2019m pretty sure it\nwill.\n\nF has written to me again and told me a\nlittle about his new lady,Mary Hayes - separated\nfrom hubby and war-time marriage - so she ain\u2019t\nxxx young. Incredible,as you say. I hope he\nwan\u2019t get into any more tangles with the law.\n\nAnother letter from my namesake Walter who\nappears to be an indefatigable correspondent,\nfull of information about the family. He writes,\nas I may have said,and has had some articles\nin print,mainly in \"The Shooting Times\". He\u2019s\nsent me some of them and I enclose one for yr\nI  please return Walter shoots to kill,\nlike many another Ulster Scot,though the present\nwriter must be excluded. Yes, I might write\n\nsummat about the Greacens including the Yankee\nbranch.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1467"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford093","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Mar 2nd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford93","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Liberal","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford093","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford093.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffI shall not weary you with my reflections on\nthe Election results. Just a few points:\n\n1.Excellent for Liberal vote though even for\nour system a mere 14 seats is laughable.\n\n2.A hearty kick up the a. for Ted Heath by\nthe elctorate. Richly deserved.\n\n3. Pleased to see the S.N.P. do well. Up Cale-\ndonia.\n\n4.Pleased to see that little bitch, Bernadette\nMcA, kicked out. She has said some vicious\nthings in her time and encouraged the bombers.\n\n5.Even 'Tory Kensington gave the Lib,Dr. Lefever,\n8,270. The only candidate whose blokes came\nround and the first to send the election\naddress.\n\nLooking at the figures of the total votes, I see\nthat the Lib vote is over half of the Con and\nLab votes respectively. English xxxxxxxxx fair\nplay! ? Perhaps you'd let me have yr reflections.\n\nLeslie G had still another letter in the IRISH\nTIMES about our late friend. He's as delighted as\nif he were asked to form the next Govt. Perhaps that\nwill teach the boy to take Robert's advice in\nfuture - I urged him to write a letter in the first\nplace. I once offered to write a poem and let him\npublish it under his name - but he declined the\noffer. What more can one do!\n\nLove to you both\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1468"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford094","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Mar 7th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford94","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Books and Bookmen, Merlyn Rees, Matrimonial","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford094","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford094.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H P M\n\n7 March 74\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks for letter and Walter G's.\n\nYes,I know about that Stanford. Have often\nseen his books reviewed/advertised.\n\nB and B paid me up to date the other day,\nthe cheque having been sent before the arrival\nof my demand. Next time I shall threaten to\ninvite Walter G with his gun to visit Artillery\nMansions. And you can call on Col. (?) Stanford.\nIf they fail,there1 s always Captain xxx Fox.\n\nFreddy,as you surmise,will probably beat\nme to the matrimonial bedpost. He\u2019s a great\nbeliever in marriage - or was. Sooner him than\nme.\n\nAgree with yr remarks on the new Govt and\nP.M. What an inflationary price we shall pay\nfor the settlement with the miners. I see xxx\nwily old Uncle Harold has handed over N.I. to\na wily Welshman,Merlyn Rees,a Welsh Baptist who\nwill be more than a match for Big Ian. In his\nfirst speech in Belfast Rees made a crack at\nIan--a joke accusing him of Popery,no less!\nThis Parliament,with all the strange bods there,\nought to be entertaining if nothing else.\n\nMrs. Wechsler tells me her son,who runs a\nBond St. Gallery,made \u00a360,000 last year - xxxxxxxxxx\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1469"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford095","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Mar 7th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford95","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Saint Augustine","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford095","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford095.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff\u00a318,000 of this on 1 picture alone. He deals\nin Old Masters. Apparently he spotted a genuine\nOld Master going cheaply in France, had it\nrestored and sold at a vast profit. His father\nwas in the business ,too,but he obviously has\na flair. Intends to educate his children in\nSwitzerland as he fears Lab will abolish the\nPublic Schools. You might think Mrs. W is\nroxiing in money. Not so. She does own this\nvaluable house but has a smallish income and\nwon't take a penny from her very rich son who\nis always urging her to help herself to some\nof the lolly. My mother was like that,too,\nand would only take very small presents,and\nin later years even saved out of her small\nold age pension and sent me money! Incredible\nbut true.\n\nFunny I shd be getting so much news from\ndistant members of the family - Nan Greacen\nhas sent me a folder announcing a new Exhib-\nition in St.Augustine,Florida. This contains a\nphoto of her and I can see a 'family likeness'\nStill     in the case of her father and myself.\n\nVery many thanks for your note on this new\npublisher. It seems an excellent tip,as you\nsay. Have to wait for Gollancz\u2019 reaction. Tip\nmuch appreciated.\n\nSaw Valerie this afternoon for about 30\nmins. She\u2019s said adieu to her gent in educat-\nion. Did a review for her the other day of a\nPenguin I bought myself,as Penguin won\u2019t send\nher review copies. Her Drabble book is schedul-\ned for July.\n\nWhat about lunch either with/without\nCis and Gareth ?\n\nLove to you both- Robert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1470"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford096","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Mar 11th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford96","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Faber and Faber, John Montague, Philip Larkin","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford096","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford096.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff3 6 H P M\n\n11 March 74\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks for yrs.\n\nWednes.,20 March,for lunch at \"Gaiety\" is\nfine. I notice you say 1.30,presumably xxxxx\nbecause you are coming on a later train or have\na bit of business before getting  to \"Gaiety\".\nJust want to make sure it wasn\u2019t a slip of the pen\nand you intended to write the earlier time when we\nusually meet.\n\nI\u2019m afraid the troublemakers are going to be\nwith us for a long,long time. Grandfather Stanford,\nxxxx thou shouldst be living at this hour. ..\n\nJan and Feb have been two very lean months\nfor books. I\u2019ve been turning my hand to articles\nand glad to say one has been accepted by the IRISH\nPRESS. Valerie is also article-writing and showed\nme one or two that had appeared - e.g. in CAMBRIDGE\nEVENING NEWS. She\u2019s also collecting psychiatrist\nand computer jokes for some project. A busy,busy\nbee.\n\nHas the Faber anthol of IRISH VERSE come your\nway ? The editor,John Montague,is an Ulster Cathol-\nic,and much disliked (not on that account of xxxxxx\ncourse) by R.McF. It's probably eccxentic in the\nmanner of Larkin's, with strange ommisions and inclusions.\nIf you review it I hope, should you \n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1471"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford097","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Mar 11th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford97","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Denis Ireland, Punch","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford097","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford097.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff\n\nmention omissions x,you will say a word, for Roy:\nhe really ought to be inmit and Montague hasn\u2019t\nthe excuse that Roy hasn't published a book for\na long time or that there has been a falling off\nin quality. I think that Roy at his best is very\nvery good.\n\nMy old friend in Belfast,Denis Ireland,has\nsent me a few photocopies of reviews: PUNCH\nhas given him a long and stunningly favourable\nnotice written by that fire-eater Claud\nCockburn. Nice too for the relatively new\nBelfast firm,Blackstaff Press.\n\nMust press on elsewhere -\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n\nx I don't mind being left out.\nI'm an anthology drop-out\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1472"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford098","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Mar 14th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford98","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Writers' Guild","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford098","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford098.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff3 6 H P M\n\n14. 3. 74\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks yrs.\n12.30 then,next Wednes.\n\nI think that,more than me,Roy ought to have\nbeen in that anthol. He's had a book out not so\nlong ago and can't be considered to have dropped\nout.\n\nYes,I heard a radio review of the Cockshut (\"t\"or\"tt\"?)\nbook. Glad you got it from your aptly named\nTEACHER'S PET. I\u2019ve asked her to try to get me\nthe Montague selection.\n\nHave just had WAG letter and have voted for\njoining the Writers' Guild. Have you ? Those 2\ngirls have done a good job.\n\n2 creative writing fellowships are being\noffered by the Yorkshire Arts Assn,one at Sheff-\nield Univ and the other at a College of Edn.\nI'm sending in an application and,with yr\npermission,giving your name as a referee,i.e.\n\"an established writer,critic or academic who\nknows your work and would be prepared to\nsupport your application.\" Interviews will be\nheld early in May. Of course what I really need\nis a recently published book of creative xxxx\nwork. Anyway,I believe it's worth having a\nshot. xxxx\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1473"}},{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford099","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Mar 14th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford99","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Protestants, C.I.A","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford099","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford099.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffWell,the assassins got Senator Fox ...\nand burned down the house of his friends,all\nof them Protestants. My \"cousin\" Walter may know\nthese people as he comes from the same county,\nMonaghan,and his father was involved pretty\nsuccessfully in local politics. xx IRA. ? UDA ?\nMurderers,in any case.\n\nI have a student,a young Mexican,who has\ninformed me that the real villains are the\nYanks,both so far as Latin America is concerned\n- and Europe,too. Specifically,the CIA and ITT.\nHis theory is that they go where there is trouble\nand stir things up,and have a world-wide network\nof agents unknown to each other. He told me all\nthis with great feeling,and a Spanish boy nodded\nagreement. So now we know,don\u2019t we ?\n\nSee you next week.\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n","Type":"Text","Author":"\u200bRobert Greacen","Updated date":"Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:10","Nid":"1474"}}]}