{"nodes":[{"node":{"title":"Boyd001","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1949 Feb 16th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd001","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Election, Reason, Dethroned","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd001","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd001_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff16th February, 1949.\n\nDear St.John Ervine,\n\nThank you very much for your note. It is good news that\nyour book is coming out. I want to devote a whole book talk\nto it, that is 15 minutes, so it would be very useful if you\ncould let me have a bound proof so that the reviewer can have\nplenty of time to chew over your text. The problem of who is\nthe best person to review it is not an easy one, and no decision\nhas been reached yet. I want to get somebody authoratative.\n\nThe election excitement has died down now and we have\nvirtually a one party house. You may be pleased, I am not.\nAnd I hope that as a democrat you are displeased - surely any\ngovernment needs constant criticism. About Beattie, well, I\nagree with you: the man contributes nothing. I wish I thought\nthat his successor wasn\u2019t annonentity. However the whole thing\nmakes me sick - cabinet ministers going round on white horses,\nhysterical women dressed up, bands booming, and in all the god\nof Reason completely dethroned. You are a lucky man to be in a\ncivilized country.\n\nI hope you are well and will pay us a visit sooner or later.\nJoe's book has done reasonably well. Did you read Bridle Steen\nand Lord Dunsany's wonderful claims for it? It is not very good\nI think. There is a better novel just published which I'm sure\nnobody will read. It is called \"Come Day Co Day\u201d by John O'Connor\na 25 year old Armagh man. If you can get a hold of it, read it.\nIt is full of promise.\n\nI hope you flourish. How about the Marx play?\n\nYours ever,\n\nJB\n\n(JOHN BOYD)\n\nTalks Producer, N.I.Region\n\nDr.St.John Ervine,\nHoney Ditches,\nSeaton,\nDevon,\nEngland.\n\nFJ.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1134"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd002","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1949 Mar 1st","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd002","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Craigavon, Trinity College Dublin","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd002","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd002_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff1st March, 1949.\n\nDear St.John Ervine,\n\nThank you very much for sending me a proof copy of\nCraigavon and also your long letter. The delay In answering\nboth is due to the fact that I am having trouble with my wisdom\nteeth and trying to forget the toothache by reading Craigavon\nbefore sending it out to be read by your reviewer. Unfortun-\nately I am not allowed to do it myself, and indeed I am not\ncapable of the job. I am now about one-third way through it\nand am full of admiration. It's a big book in every sense,\nand it seems to me a work of scholarship and of far-reaching\nscope. Whether your thesis is or is not right I just don\u2019t\nknow, and most of my ingrained protestant prejudices are in\nfavour of your arguments. You have of course put up a most\nformidable case and it will be interesting reading and listening\nto people who will try to knock you down. What I did whole-\nheartedly admire was your prose, which in Craigavon is of rare\nvintage. The book was obviously a labour of love and must\nhave given you great enjoyment to write. I met Craigavon only\nonce and was not in the least impressed by him and his appear-\nance had no attraction at all for me; but your portrayal of\nhis character seemed to me so sane and balanced and just that\nI am almost won over. In other words you have mesmerised me\nand I hope to come to my senses within the next fortnight,\nprobably having lost my wisdom teeth during the same period.\n\nI don't yet know who will be chosen to review Craigavon.\nWe are offering the job to Professor Moody, now of Trinity\nCollege Dublin, but for a long time lecturer at Queen\u2019s, and of\ncourse a Belfastman and an Ulsterman. He is one of our most\ndistinguished historians and should be able to discuss the book\nintelligently. He is a bit of a dry stick personally but he\nis considered a very sound historian. At least he won\u2019t butter\nyou up: the probability is that he will pierce your armour\nat various places, and we of course will give him a free hand.\nAt the moment he is in Leeds and I have not yet got his\nacceptance. If he does not want to do the job I\u2019ll think of\nsomebody else and inform you as soon as a decision is reached.\n\nI am rushing off now to take part in one of those dreadful\nQuiz programmes whose continuing popularity I can never understand.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1135"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd003","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1949 Mar 1st","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd003","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Regional, London","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd003","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd003_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffOr rather I can - It Is Lord Northcliffe and Answers all\nover again.\n\nI heard glowing reports about your talk from the West\nRegion, but very rarely indeed do we exchange Regional\ntalks. However I\u2019ll mention the matter to my Head of\nProgrammes.\n\nI am going to London on the 25th of April to the 20th\nof May for a month's training at the B.B.C. and was wondering\nif you happened to be there during that period whether you\nwould have a meal with me somewhere? I\u2019d be very glad of\na chat and would give you all the local scandal I could gather\nup.\n\nYours ever,\n\n(JOHN BOYD)\n\nTalks Produeer,N.I.Region\n\nDr.St.John Ervine,\nHoney Ditches,\nSeaton,\nDevon,\nEngland.\n\nFJ.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1136"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd004","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1949 Oct 7th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd004","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"London, Producer","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd004","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd004_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff7th October 1949\n\nDear Michael,\n\nI'll be In London on Thursday 27th\nOctober for a meeting of Talks Producers\nand I propose getting a studio and recording\nyour two stories if this would be conveni-\nent for you. If you give me word to go\nahead I shall begin booking a studio In\nLondon and so on. I suggest we do the\nstories on Sunday - say one in the morning\nand the other In the evening. Or if you\nlike one on Sunday and the other on Monday\nmorning. Have you a definitive script\nyet of \"The Man about the House\". If so\nperhaps you would forward it to me for\nstenciling. I'll send you a copy of\n\"The Pensioners\" about a week before the\nrecording.\n\nI have put \u201cThe Man about the House\"\nin programmes for Wednesday 16th November,\n10.25-10.45 p.m.\n\nI'm looking forward to seeing you\nagain.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(JOHN BOYD)\n\nTalks Produce,N.I.Region\n\nFrank O'Connor Esq.,\nc/o Bill Haughton Esq.,\n\n64 St.George's Square,\nLONDOn, W.I.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1137"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd005","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1949 Oct 20th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd005","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"B.B.C, Jubilee, O'Connor","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd005","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd005_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff20th October 1949.\n\nDear Michael,\n\nI have just heard, at the last minute,\nthat the BBC will not release me from this\nJubilee nonsense to go to London. This\nis a sad blow as I was looking forward very\nmuch to seeing you. I have had to cancel\nrecording arrangements and studio bookings\nand so on, and as you can guess I'm not in\nthe best of tempers.\n\nHowever, these things happen in the\nBBC and have to be endured. Many thanks\nfor the pome: it lifted our spirits, and\nhas made Frances bring a dictionary into\nthe office. Thus good comes from evil.\n\n If you have any time drop me a note:\nI see McFaden once a week and if he or I\ncan be of any help at any time I know\nyou'll write. 1'11 let you know when I\nget some decision made about the stories.\nOne - \"The Man of the House\" is in pro-\ngrammes.\n\nWith best wishes to you\nYours ever\n\nFrank 0,Connor Esq.,\nFlat 36, Rutland Court,\n\nDenmark Hill, S.E.5.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1138"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd006","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1951 Dec 31st","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd006","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Film, New Yorker","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd006","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd006_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff31st December 1951.\n\nDear Michael,\n\nPlease thank Joan for her unique Christmas card: it\nwas very good of her to remember me in the middle of such\nan upheaval. I\u2019m glad that you are out of Dublin for a\nspace - you will have time to breathe again and to write.\nI expect you are all settling down in Dorset: a change\nof climate will do you all the good in the world.\n\n We have all had flu and. are not so good, but I have\nreturned to work and am, as usual, up to the eyes,\nhave you noticed that Sams book has been getting good\nreviews? It has bucked him up greatly. Joe was in the\noffice today - he has just finished a film. I had a\nletter from Bill recently, sounded a little depressed,\nhope I may hear from you soon. I am reading a lively book\nby Edmund Wilson - Classics and Commercials. I expect you\nhave read most of the stuff in the New Yorker.\n\nAll the best to Donny and Oliver and a very haopy New\nYear to Joan and yourself.\nYours ever,\n\nMichael O'Donovan Esq.,\n7 Cobb Terrace,\nLime Regis,\nDORSET,\nEngland.\n\nPJ.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1139"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd007","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1952 Apr 30th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd007","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Emendations, McLaverty","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd007","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd007_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff30 th April 1952.\n\nDear Michael,\n\nI am very grateful to you for\nyour work on the script, I certainly\nagree with your emendations. I also\nthink we should include the story of\nthe fresh air. If you had an hour\nto spare some afternoon I would be\nglad if you came in and had a chat\nwith me about it, though as I had\nhoped we have really no disagreement\nworth discussing.\n\nWith best wishes to yourself\nand the family.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(JOHN BOYD)\n\nTalks Producer,N.I.Region\n\nMichael McLaverty Esq.,\n30 Deramore Drive,\nBELFAST.\n\nFJ\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1140"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd008","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1952 Apr 21st","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd008","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Script, Fight","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd008","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd008_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff21st April 1952.\n\nDear. Michael,\n\nThank you for your letter.\nThere is no hurry about returning\nmy script, but of course I shall\nbe only too glad to incorporate\nyour suggestions wlthout a ' fight'!\n\nI am looking forward to seeing\nyou again, in about a fortnight\u2019s\ntime as you suggest, I hope you\nhave had a good holiday.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(JOHN BOYD)\n\nTalks Producer,N.I.Region\n\nMichael McLaverty Esq.,\n30 Deramaore Drive,\nBELFAST.\n\nPJ\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1141"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd009","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1952 Oct 2nd","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd009","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Rotary, Royal Belfast Academical Institution","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd009","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd009_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff2nd October 1952.\n\nDear Mr, Grummitt,\n\nI regret that I was unable\nto get Mr. Buchanan to address\nthe Rotary, so I propose doing\nit myself. Perhaps you would\ntell me the time and venue for\nlunch.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(John Boyd)\n\nJ.H.Grummitt Esq.,M.A.,\nRoyal Belfast Academical Institution,\nCollege Square East,\nBELFAST.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1142"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd010","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1953 May 28th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd010","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Esperenza, Goldblatt","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd010","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd010_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff28th May, 1953.\n\nDear St.John,\n\nThank you very much for sending me Esperanza. What\nhappened was I asked Goldblatt to let me read it, and he\npromptly did so, asking me to return it to him in a day\nor so. The result was I read it very quickly and returned\nit to him; but I am very glad you sent it to me because\nI have now been able to read it carefully.\n\nI find it very exciting indeed: the people springing\nat once into life, and the whole atmosphere and action most\nconvincing. It would, i think, play extraordinarily well,\nfor it is full of dramatic movement and sound philosphical\nreflection. The characters are certainly interesting in\nthemselves - the Oscotts; Agatha Chope; that lovely girl\nAnnie Appleyard; and Rennie; and the delightful Stevens,\nthe steward; and the Rev. Macdonald. All excellent.\n\nThe only characters I didn't wholly believe in were\nCrawley and Tripp: to my mind both are overdrawn; your\nanti-communism has got the better of you. Haven't you done\nthe equivalent of the 'bloated capitalist' nonsense perpe-\ntrated by C.P. writers?\n\nI'm grateful to you for letting me read it: and it has\nso much life in it that it is bound to be produced, sooner\nor later. If it isn't it'll be disgraceful! I'd love to\nbe at the first night.\n\nYou remember I mentioned to you that I would like to\ndramatise Mrs. Martin's Man. Since you left I have been\nengaged in doing it, and find that the book falls\nnaturally into three acts. I have made a first draft of it\nand find that the novel was dramatically constructed, and the\ncharacters are a very diversified lot, with Martha of course\ncoming out the strongest.\n\nIf you approve of my proceeding with this I would, of\ncourse, show you the first draft when I get it typed. If\nyou disapprove, I know you will say so at once.\n\nI have already mentioned to Goldblatt that I was engaged\n\nin this and he says the Group would like to do it.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1143"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd011","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1953 May 28th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd011","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Heretic, Dramatic","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd011","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd011_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff- 2 -\n\nDuring the last four or five months I have been\nengaged on a play of my own called The Heretic, which\nGoldblatt has promised to put on next winter. I am,\nhowever, not quite satisfied with it and am re-writing\nbits of it. I would like to send it to you but have\nalready Imposed on you: I think what I need is to see\na play of my own produced, and then I shall realise\nwhether or not I have any original dramatic talent.\nLike many another I think I have, and I only hope I am\nright, but won\u2019t be surprised if I\u2019m wrong.\n\nYours ever\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1144"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd012","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1953 Jul 15th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd012","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"London, Bill Naughton","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd012","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd012_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff15th July 1953.\n\nDear St.John,\n\nHere Is my adaptation of Mrs. Martin\u2019s Man. I have let\nHarold Goldblatt read it, and he has accepted it for the Group\nTheatre. You will see his pencil note on page I.\n\nYou will see I have changed Jamesy to Johnny: I thought\nthere would be some confusion between Jamesy and his father\nJames.\n\nI am very anxious indeed to know what you think of this,\nand I hope that I have been faithful to the theme and characters\nof the novel, I certainly enjoyed very much making this\nadaptation and would be grateful for your criticism.\n\nI am rushing off to London now where I shall be staying with\nBill Naughton, 64 St. George's Square until the morning of\n27th July. If you get an opportunity of reading this in the\nnext ten days or so perhaps you would forward it to 64 St.George\u2019s\nSquare. I am sending, it by registered post and enclose registered\nonvelope for its return. This is the only full copy in existence\nand I am heart scared of losing it.\n\nI hope your visit to Edinburgh to see the specialist turned\nout well. If by any chance you are in London during the next\nfortnight perhaps we could meet and have a meal, but I expect\nyou are working at home. I know your visits to London these\ndays are not too frequent.\n\nBest wishes,\n\nEver,\n\n(JOHN BOYD)\n\nDr. St.John Ervine,\nHoney Ditches,\nSeaton,\nDevon,\nEngland.\n\nPJ\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1145"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd013","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1953 Oct 9th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd013","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Election, The Critics","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd013","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd013_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff9th October 1953\n\nDear St.John,\n\nI enclose a copy of Mrs.Martin's Man: If you want another\none I can provide vou with it. I Have already given Goldblatt\none for the Group Theatre. He has read It but still seems\nunsure what to do. I think he and McCandless are wondering\nwhether to put Mrs.Martin's Man or Martha on at Christmas. All\nI can extract from him is that he will give the plays good dates\n- either Christmas or Easter. He told me that- he had promised\nyou that too. He seems to be of the opinion that Mrs.Martin's\ntan is a bit stark for Christmas audiences - not enough laughs:\nso possibly Martha may be lighter. 1 don't mind what happens so\nlong as we get a reasonably good date.\n\nThe Election will soon be upon us here, but the prospect of\nit bores me, seeing that the result is in no doubt, and all the\nspeeches are the same.\n\nHow are things with you? I suppose you are as busy as ever.\nGeorge Buchanan very kindly sent me some of your old Observer\narticles: they read as freshly as the day on which they were\npublished. Leonora is right, you must publish them soon.\nSurely it wouldn't be so very much work. Couldn't she do the\nediting?\n\nI am just now reading a very good book indeed, called\nPlaywright At Work by John van Druten. The Arts Theatre is\njust about to produce Joe's play Down The Heather Glen, which\nI will be going to see next week. I run a programne called\n\"The Arts in Ulster\u201d which covers the theatre, Art Exhibitions\netc'., it is really a crib of The Critics. Ihis is the only\ncriticism of any value we have here, and sometimes it is not\nbat at all. My trouble usually is getting a good dramatic\ncritic.\n\nI will tell you when Goldblatt reaches a decision. Any\nluck with Esperanza yet?\n\nEver,\n\nDr.St.John Ervlne,\n\nHoney Ditches,\nSeaton, Devon.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1146"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd014","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1953 Oct 30th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd014","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Patterson, Contractor","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd014","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd014_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff13 Dunluce Avenue,\n\nBELFAST.\n\n30th October 1953,\n\nDear Mr.Caskey,\n\nMr. McCune has been in our house recently\nant noticed that the fireplace in the living room\nis incomplete: there are no means for using the\ndamper. He told me to write to you and said that\nyou would knodoubt get in touch with Mr.Patterson,\nthe contractor.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(JOHN BOYD)\n\nMessrs. T.S.Martin, Sons, & Caskey,\n12 College Square East,\n\nBELFAST.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1147"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd015","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1954 Mar 17th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd015","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"B.B.C, London","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd015","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd015_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff17th March 1954.\n\nDear St.John,\n\nThe first night is over, and i think it was\nreasonably successful. Anyway there was a full\nhouse and the play was given a very good reception.\n\nThe general impression is that it is a good play\nbut the final act Is unsatisfactory. Everything\nwent wrong with Act Three: it played for only\n17 minutes, and ended with an abrupt curtain.\n\nI think the production is good, but there were\nall sorts of roughnesses in the playing. Unlike\nyou, i have little experience of first nights so I\nam a bad judge of them.\n\nI have seen two criticisms: The Whig, which is\na long one and rather unfavourable, and The Telly which\nI am posting to you,\n\nI was not able to go to the rehearsals because\nthe BBC sent me on a rush job over the last week-end to\nLondon. I wish it had been next week-end and we could\nhave had a chat. T will give you any further comments\nas they come along. I am enclosing a copy of the\nprogramme also.\n\nWith best wishes,\nEver\n\nDr. St. John Ervine,\nThe Savile Club,\n69 Brook Street,\nLONDON, W.1.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1148"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd016","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1957 Feb 14th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd016","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Society, Producer","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd016","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd016_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff14 February 1957\n\nDear Miss McClatchey:\n\nHere is a copy of Mrs. Martin's\nMan which you told me you would like\nto see for possible production. If\nthe society is not interested in it\nperhaps you would be good enough to\nreturn it as I have only one or two\ncopies.\n\nI am most grateful to you for\nthe information you kindly gave me\nwhen I telephoned yesterday.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(JOHH BOYD)\n\nTalks Producer, N.I.Region\n\nMiss McClatchey,\n\nc/o Belfast Council of Social Service,\nBryson House,\nBELFAST.\n\nJB/FJ\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1149"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd017","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1957 Jun 26th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd017","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Rodgers, Producer","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd017","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd017_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff26th June 1957.\n\nDear Theo,\n\nI was glad to hear that you are still alive and to judge\nfrom your note you have at last recovered from the dreadful\nmauling the B.B.C. gave you! I gladly do what you ask and I\nmust apologise for not having thought of the half dozen copies\nbefore. You should have these copies and the the six copies\nof voulume 2 within the next couple of days.\n\nI gather that both series are selling quite steadily\nbut I have no figures to hand yet. I envy you going off to\nStrasbourg: I am going off to Donegal - a better place. I\nsaw Bertie Rodgers last week and he was in fine fettle - a\nlittle sad perhaps. I also ran into Leslie McCracken yesterday in\nSmithfield and had a long yarn with him. He is very pleased\nabout his book.\n\nI went down to Dublin about a month ago, just to see\nthe French company doing Molliere but had to scurry up North\nimmediately. The journey was well worth while: I expect\nyou saw this company.\n\nAll Kinf regards,\n\n(JOHN BOYD)\nTalks Producer,N.I.Region\n\nProfessor T. Moody,\n14 Healthfield Road,\nTeremurem\nDUBLIN.\n\nJB/LHL\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1150"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd018","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1957 Jun 28th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd018","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Donegal, London","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd018","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd018_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff28th June, 1957.\n\nDear Dorothy,\n\nIt was very good of you to write and to send me your\ntwo scripts. I am looking forward to reading them both.\n\nTo-day I am going off on a holiday to Donegal and so\nthere may be a delay before I return them to you. I was\nvery sorry that your stay here was not longer and that I\nhadn't an opportunity of taking you into the country.\nAnother time. Elisabeth read \"The Street\" and told me to\ntell you that she enjoyed it very much indeed. I\nwish your publisher would reprint it.\n\nIt will be good to get away from broadcasting for a\nmonth - Donegal is so remote taht I don't expect there\nwill be many wireless sets about. I hope to have a\nlesisurely time reading a little and bathing.\n\nMrs. Dorothy Baker,\nRothwell House,\nLONDON.\n\nJB/LHL\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1151"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd019","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1957 Nov 11th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd019","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Election, Armagh","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd019","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd019_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff11 November 1957.\n\nDear John:\n\nThank you very much for sending me the criticism of\nNot By Bread Alone. They do go into these matters very\nseriously indeed. I have been wondering how the adaptation\nof this novel has turned out. I'm sure it is not an easy\nnovel to adapt. I thought it very dull and naive; I don't\nmean politically naive, but naive so far as the art of the\nnovelist is concerned. The characterization seemed to me\nquite rudimentary; the writing quite undistinguished; the\ntechnicalities quite boring; and some of the incidents quite\nfrightening. I must say, however, I approve of this business\nof public criticism. It has its dangers, but on balance must\nbe very healthy. It does prevent literature from being\nesoteric or precious or out of touch. On the other hand\nvox populi is very far from being vox dei.\n\nDid you hear last night the production of The Back Window?\nVery, very good I thought it - I mean the production. As for\nthe play your friend Beckett is going to have a lot to answer\nfor.\n\nTell Amy that I am trying to get her the historical infor-\nmation she requests. I have already asked an historian and\nhe has not yet any definite information about the names. He\nis doubtful, however, that such names have ever been known.\n\nEver\n\nJohn Gibson Esq.,\nDrama Department,\nRothwell House,\nBBC LONDON.\n\nJB/PJ\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1152"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd020","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1958 May 21st","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd020","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Karenina, County Down","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd020","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd020_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff21 May, 1958.\n\nMy dear Frank:\n\nIt was good to hear from you. I have not answered before this\nbecause I wanted to meet Miss McColl and also to read her work. I\nhave now done both. She is a middle aged woman who comes from Co.\nLouth and has been living in Belfast for the last ten years or so\nwith her sister. She is a complete natural and doesn't know Orahm\nGreene exists. I have read the \"Cut the Cards\" story and will have\nit broadcast, and I have asked her to bring in for me some manu-\nscripts. I agree with you that there is beautiful feeling in her\nwork when it comes out pure. Thank God she isn't widely read: but\nshe tells me that Anna Karenina is her favourite novel, that Trollope\nis the gre test English novelist, and that Frank O'Connor is the\ngreatest living short story writer. She has heard F. O'C broadcast\nfrom Belfast and has also read four of his best stories in, I think,\nsome newspaper or other. And she has no doubt about him. She also\ntells me that you have said that I am the best critic in the British\nIsles - or is it in County Down, I am not sure which. Anyhow we are\nall happy. I am seeing her again next week and shall report to you\nin due course. Ah me, she asked about the mood story but I changed\nthe subject. I will do my best with her.\n\nYour other news is good. Congratulations to you both on the\nbaby. Good news too that you are coming home in September. I shall\nsee my legal adviser, Mr. McFadden, and guarantee you safe conduct to\nand from Belfast. What about a broadcast in the Fall?\n\nI enjoyed The Mirror very much indeed and should have told you\nthat before this. However, if you are not the world's worse corres-\npondent you do qualify for the second prize.\n\nI am going over to London for a visit and shall see Bill and Erna\nWe shall drink your health.\n\nEver\n\n(John Boyd)\n\nTalks Froducer, N.I.Region\nFrank O'Connor Esq.,\n160 Columbia Heights,\nBrooklyn, I, N.Y.\nJB/FJ\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1153"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd021","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1959 May 12th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd021","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Daughters, Malone","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd021","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd021_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff12th May, 1959.\n\nDear Mr.and Mrs.McKee:\n\nThank you very much for the delightful\nparty yesterday. I enjoyed myself very much\nindeed and judging by the hilarity of the staff\nenjoyment seemed widespread. It was a lovely\nidea to invite us into the gardens on such a\nbeautiful evening. I am most grateful to you\nboth - and also to your daughters who contributed\nnot a little to the pleasure of the evening.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nJ\n\n(John Boyd)\n\nMr.& Mrs.J.Ritchie McKee,\n124 Malone Road,\nBELFAST.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1154"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd022","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1958 May 28th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd022","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Drama, Soviet","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd022","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd022_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff16 Dunluce Avenue,\nBELFAST\n\n28 May, 1958.\n\nDear John:\n\nDr. Ian Leslie passed to me your copy letter of the\nentries referring to Irish Drama in the Great Soviet\nEncyclopedia. I have made some corrections in pencil.\n\nI see in the covering letter from the Deputy Chief Editor,\nMr. L. Shaumyan, that he would like comments, corrections\nand additions. I wish I had time to do this job in the\ninterests of accurate scholarship, but I haven\u2019t. It\nwould take at least a week\u2019s work. However, my comment\nis this: I think the encyclopedia is completely out of\ndate and inaccurate so far as Irish Drama is concerned.\nThis really will not do. It is slipshod and unworthy of\nSoviet scholarship. I think you should pass these com-\nments to Mr. Shaumyan. If at any time in the future you\nwould like a contribution to this work of reference; I\nshould be glad to do it provided I am given time and\nclearly told what is wanted.\n\nWith best wishes,\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(JOHN BOYD)\n\nJohn Warren Esq.,\n137 Carmeen Drive,\nRathcoole,\nBELFAST.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1155"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd023","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1959 Aug 27th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd023","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"London, Television","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd023","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd023_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff27th August 1959.\n\nDear Jim:\n\nMy daughter, Deirdre, has Just\npassed Senior and is anxious to Join\nyour department in the Secretarial\nCourse \"A\". I tried to get in touch\nwith you Just to have your advice, but\nfound you were not at home. I am off\nto London for six months for this\nTelevision Course and would have liked\nto have had a chat with you about\nDeirdre. Anyhow I will be back in\nabout a month\u2019s time possibly and per-\nhaps I could telephone you and we could\nhave a drink.\n\nEver\n\n/\n\n(John Boyd)\n\nJ.U.Stewart Esq.,\n41 Camden Street,\nBELFAST.\n\nJB/FJ\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1156"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd024","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1960 Mar 2nd","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd024","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"London, Earls Court","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd024","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd024_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff2nd March I960.\n\nDear Johnnie:\n\nI am very sorry I wasn\u2019t able\nto see you again as my last week in\nLondon was rather hectic. I very\nmuch enjoyed our walks and talks and\nhope all will go well with you.\nPlease keep me to my word if you ever\nget into any fixes - I am sure you\nwon\u2019t, but we never can tell in this\nscrambling age.\n\nHope to sse you soon -\nEver\n\nJ.Smith Es,.,\n\n3 Courtfield Gardens,\nEarls Court,\nLONDON, S.W.5.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1157"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd025","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1960 Sep 30th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd025","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Belfast, Donegal, West End","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd025","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd025_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff30th September 1960.\n\nDear St. John,\n\nIt is with great fear and trepidation that I write to you,\nbut if I haven't written I certainly thought of you and wondered\nhow you\u2019re keeping. I hope well. Last week C.K. Munro paid\na surprise visit to Belfast and we had a long chat so your ears\nshould have been red.\n\nHe had with him a Mrs. Wade whom I think was an actress\nsome 20 or 30 years ago. Her husband has edited Yates's letters\nand I think was engaged in editing Wilde's letters when he died.\nSo I expect you know him.   C.K. was in great form despite the\nfact that he has recently broken a femur. He seemed to get\ngreat enjoyment going round Belfast and the coast of Co. Down and\nseeing all the changes - not all for the better I fear.\n\nI am in good form myself, though during the summer I broke\nfour ribs. You will laugh when you hear how. Playing Baseball\nwith American monks in Donegal. I know you will immediately\nexclaim: \"Served the bugger right!\"\n\nThe theatre here is in a bad way: the Group, as you probably\nknow, still goes on, but in a very feeble way.  Goldblatt and Co.,\nhave left it, of course, and James Young a local commedian is in\ncharge, and farces are a staple diet. The other theatre, the Arts,\ndo the latest West End plays. Unfortunately they select the\nsillier ones - or the sexier ones. Curious how this still\npuritanical community relish French or even English sex.\n\nI haven't seen Joe for some weeks. He's not well, poor man,\nand I expect will never become quite his old self again.\n\nDid you read a good autobiography by an Ulsterman, Robert\nHarbinson - \"No Surrender\" is the title. It's all about his\nchildhood in the Bog Meadows, but I suppose the Bog Meadows was\nas far away from the Newtownards Road as Siberia!\n\nP.T.O.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1158"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd026","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1960 Sep 30th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd026","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Belfast, Autobiography","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd026","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd026_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff2.\n\nHere in Broadcasting House we are still churning out\nradio programmes and the odd television programme, but there's\nnothing very fresh. I am engaged in a long feature on the\ndevelopment of Belfast, and am reading through all the old\nhistory, autobiographies and documents I can get my hands on.\nIt's a wonderful history altogether, Belfast's. I only wish\nthe City wasn't so ugly. No-one gives a damn about planning\nanything.\n\nHow's your work getting on? C.K. told me you had almost\nfinished your autobiography; I hope this is true. If so\nit's good news.\n\nAnd I hope all your news is good.\n\nWith best wishes to Nora and yourself.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(JOHN BOYD)\n\nSenior Talks Producer, Northern Ireland.\n\nDr. St. John Ervine,\nHoney Ditches,\nSeaton,\n\nDEVON.\n\nJB/PEC\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1159"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd027","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1960 Oct 3rd","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd027","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Dublin, Chelsea","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd027","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd027_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff3rd October I960.\n\nDear Margot:\n\nThank you very much for writing\nto me - it was not necessary to thank\nus. Elisabeth and I enjoyed very\nmuch meeting you and C.K. Very glad\nto know that your Dublin trip was a\nsuccess. C.K. sent me a couple of\nvery nice post cards. You did succeed\nin seeing your old friends, including\nthe Yeats family, and that must have\nbeen very pleasant indeed. I will\ncertainly take up your offer and call\nwith you when in London.\n\nWith best wishes,\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n/\n\nMrs. Wade,\n\n346A King's Road,\nChelsea,\nLondon, S.W.3.\n\nJB/FJ\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1160"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd028","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1960 Oct 18th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd028","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Ulster, Devon","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd028","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd028_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff18th October I960.\n\nDear C.K.\n\nThank you very much for sending me Jonsen.\nI am looking forward very much to reading it.\nI will write to you later.\n\nHope you have settled down in your fabulous\nshack! I had a nice letter from Margot. I would\nlike to call and see her some time when I am in\nLondon.\n\nAfter your visit, on an impulse I wrote to\nSt.John but have not had an answer from him. I\nfear he has taken umbrage about something or other -\nhe is touchy. Anyhow, perhaps you will write to\nhim some time and tell him you were over in your\nnative Ulster. I feel he is very lonely now in\nDevon, and I would very much like to hear how he is.\n\nWith best wishes,\n\nEver\n\nC.K.Munro Esq.,\n2 The Rosary,\nSouth Heath,\nGreat Missenden,\nBucks.\n\nJB/FJ\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1161"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd029","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1960 Oct 21st","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd029","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Profane, Establishment","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd029","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd029_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff21st October I960.\n\nDear Victor:\n\nYou have been on my conscience as I have not replied to your\nlast very interesting letter. I have no excuse except that I have\nbeen very busy with one thing and another. It\u2019s good to hear that\nyou are enjoying yourself and doing all sorts of interesting work.\nI wish I could tell you that things here are taking a turn for the\nbetter and that we are leading this community back into sanity and\nsound thinking, but I fear that we are trailing behind and playing\nvery safe indeed in all things, holy and profane. I have little\ngossip for you except that most of the \u2018sound' staff have been\nswitched to Clarence Street offices and I hear mingle with seedy\nlinen ex-tycoons who lament the death of their industry, and with\nwhom sound broadcasting producers feel a deep sympathy. Donnie\nMason has returned from London in an imaginatively lit-up frame of\nmind. He is in Clarence Street, much to his chagrin, also Sam\nBell, John Body and Sam Denton and Uncle Tom Cobley and all...\nThe Talks Department, which as you know is part of the establishment\nis still with the Establishment on a day to day basis. But any day\nthe axe may fall and my feet will roll along Bedford Street.\nHeadless and witless and deliriously happy.\n\nTo be serious: the kind of questions I want for the Common-\nwealth edition of \"Your Questions\" are the kind of questions which\nwould interest listeners in Northern Ireland and also the country of\nwhich the questioner is residing. In other words, these Ulster\npeople have had the advantage of a double social experience, that is,\nliving in Northern Ireland and also living in a country with a com-\npletely different social background; therefore they should be\nconscious of social questions through a double vision as it were.\n\nThis may not be very clear, but I think you will get the general\nhang of what I mean. Again, questions should be crisp, controversial\nto the point, and up to the moment.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1162"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd030","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1960 Dec 1st","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd030","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Jimmy Young, The Mousetrap","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd030","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd030_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff1st December I960.\n\nDear Victor:\n\nYour tapes and your letter arrived safely yesterday\nand I am replying almost immediately. I am most grateful\nto you for doing these recordings. At the moment, of\ncourse, I don't know which of the two good questions will\nbe chosen, but if Doreen Alexander's one is chosen I will\nget in touch with her parents. It would be useful for me\nto have their address!\n\nI'm glad to know you are still enjoying life. You\ncertainly are getting a great variety of experience both\ninside and outside of Radio, and that's all to the good for\na young fresh-minded man (I have now put on the mantel of\nsenile, if not senior, statesman of this disestablishment).\nI'm afraid that we are still mucking through in the way of\nlife familiar to you. Nothing very exciting in the way of\nprogrammes. However, the 'loose-box' standard is well up\nto its glories of former years and the news is as untopical\nas ever. As you probably know, a lot of the producers haven\nbeen sent to Clarence Street which is now known as The Salt\nMines. Sam Bell seems quite happy there but Ronnie feels\nas if the BBC have him half way out. The theatre here is\nflourishing with a Jimmy Young farce which looks like running\nas long as The Mouse Trap in London. But really the atmos-\nphere in Belfast is at' the moment very dull, and the only\nstories I have for you are personal anecdotes of people you\nknow here - the usual small talk which is better related\nover a bottle of stout. Do you ever get a drink of that\nby the way - or do you confine yourself to exotic oriental\nwines and drugs?\n\nI have passed your news over to Diana who is doing all\nthe hard work in connection with this Commonwealth edition\nof \"Your Questions\". It really seems a life time since we\npassed each other on the moving staircase at Piccadilly and\nthen had a nice evening ending up in the pub with the\nLancastrian folk. Outside it is a dull, grey, missling\nDecember afternoon. I long for some sunshine and bright\ncolours.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1163"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd031","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1960 Dec 1st","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd031","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Drama, Novel","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd031","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd031_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffThe news of your producing a play is excellent.\nI'm sure it as good. I will tell Ronnie, who is looking\nvery seedy and behaving very neurotically, that you have\nentered the field of drama production and are eager to\ncome home to do is job. This I know will be as good as\nthe best tonic for him, and he will undoubtedly take a new\nlease of life. Just now his expectation of life seems to\nbe about three weeks.\n\nThe novel you are doing sounds most interesting. I\nhope there's a lot of oriental erroticism in it. Why not\nwrite a Lady Chatter-li-po saga giving the truth behind\nthe oriental smile. Your future would be made. Do give\nme the job of acting as your literary agent.\n\nI must stop as my desk is so full of memos, letters,\nmanuscripts etc that I must clear it up else my head will\nbust.\n\nMay I 'wish you and yours a very happy Christmas -\n\nEver\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1164"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd032","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1961 Apr 18th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd032","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Gide, Mayo, Stendahl","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd032","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd032_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff18th April 1961.\n\nDear Tony:\n\nThank you vary much for sending me First Person.\nIt really is a posh production. I agree Americans\ncan do this kind of thing well. I got your A Sweet\nMouse-Trotting Cup copied and if I can insert it in\nany programme I will do so. I liked your photograph\ntoo - it reminds me' of young Gide (certainly not a\nfather of ten!) I think it\u2019s the dome. Do you know\nthe work of a friend of mine called Bill Naughton? -\nyour face reminds me a little of him - he\u2019s an Irishman\nfrom Mayo whom MacGib on and Kee publishes. Get hold\nof his A Small Boy, if you can, and tell me what you\nthink of it.\n\nGorry you missed the broadcast but hope the fee\nhas caught up with you, Roy McFadden and I send you\nour greetings.\n\nI liked the Stendhal Memories of a Tourist. He\nreally was something, old Henri.\n\n\nDec 14.7-65\nUsed Arts\nTXN\n21.10-65\n\nSome day I would like to do a recording with you\nwhen I'm on a visit to England. You must tell me the\nbest way of getting to Anglesey from Belfast en route\nfor London. A long chat into the tape recorder might\nbe enjoyable.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(JOHN BOYD)\n\nTalks Producer, N.I.Region\n\nAnthony C.West Esq.,\nBryn Afon,\nPenmon,\nBeaumaris,\nAnglesey,\nN.Wales.\n\nJB/FJ\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1165"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd033","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1961 Dec 6th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd033","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Humour, Tomelty","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd033","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd033_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff6th December 1961.\n\nDear Joe:\n\nVery interesting play, characters\nwell delineated; good humour - nice\ndialogue. But your 'story-line' is\nweak. Let\u2019sdiscuss it!\n\nSorry I missed you on Monday\nafternoon.\n\nEver\n\n(PASTOR JOHN)\n\nJoseph Tomelty Esq.,\nSt.Catherine's\nStockman\u2019s Lane,\nBelfast, 11\n\nJB/FJ\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1166"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd034","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd034","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Storyline, Weak","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd034","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd034_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff6th December 1961.\n\nDear Joe:\n\nVery interesting play, characters\nwell delineated; good humour - nice\ndialogue. But your 'story-line' is\nweak. Let\u2019sdiscuss it!\n\nSorry I missed you on Monday\nafternoon.\n\nEver\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1167"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd035","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1962 Jan 16th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd035","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Soldier, Sackville","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd035","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd035_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff16th January 1962.\n\nDear Marian:\n\nThank you very much for the galley proofs and the\nNew Writers paper book. I think the New Writers volume\nis very good. Sorry I cannot say the same about Soldier\nFor Hire. I think this is bogus Irishry at its worst.\nHowever, I have not yet finished the galley proofs and\nperhaps I will revise my opinion. But at the moment -\nhalf way through - I am certainly not impressed. How-\never, a rollicking piece of written-up material may well\nbe successful as an adventure story. But not for the\ndiscriminating reader, alas! I regard it as a doped\nhorse from the Calder stables.\n\nEver\n\n(John Boyd)\n\nTalks Producer, N.I .Region\n\nMrs.Marian Lobbenberg,\nc/o Messrs.John Calder Ltd.,\n17 Sackville Street,\nPiccadilly,\n\nLondon, W.I.\n\nJB/PJ\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1168"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd036","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1962 Jan 16th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd036","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Belfast Telegraph, Questions","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd036","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd036_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffTHE BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION\n\nHead Office: Broadcasting House, London, W. i\n\nBroadcasting House, Ormeau Avenue, Belfast 2\n\nTELEPHONE AND TELEGRAMS: BELFAST 27411\n\nTO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN\n\n16th January, 1962.\n\nI am glad to have the opportunity to testify on\nbehalf of Mr. Tom Roberts, the Political Co respondent\nof the Belfast Telegraph.\n\nMr. Roberts has, in my opinion, an expert know-\nledge of the economic, political, and social position\nof Northern Ireland. He is a frequent member of the\n\"Your Questions\" programme which I produce in the Nor-\nthern Ireland Home Service, and he is chosen for this\npanel not only because of his abilities as a broadcaster\nand his personality, but also for his ability to discuss\nNorthern Ireland subjects. Participation in this pro-\ngramme is an index that Mr, Roberts is an all-round\nauthority on Northern Ireland affairs.\n\nIf you should require any further information about\nMr. Roberts' abilities I should be glad to furnish it.\n\n(John Boyd)\n\nTalks Producer\nBBC Northern Ireland Region\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1169"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd037","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1962 Jan 16th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd037","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Cheque, Vauxhall","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd037","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd037_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff16th January 1962.\n\nDear Mrs.Frey:\n\nThank you very much for your\ncheque which arrived on Saturday.\nVery prompt of you. I was very\nglad to help you.\n\nWith best wishes,\n\nTours sincerely,\n\n(JOHN DOYD)\n\nMrs.Frey,\n7 Vauxhall Park,\nBELFAST 9.\n\nJB/FJ\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1170"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd038","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1963 Jan 17th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd038","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Finance, Frank O'Connor","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd038","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd038_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff\n\n17th January 1963.\n\nDear Michael:\n\nAbout expenditure on National Monuments and Staff etc. in\nNorthern Ireland. I have enquired about this and have been\ntold that all your friend has to do is to consult the publica-\ntion The Northern Ireland Government Estimates on Expenditure\nto find out the estimated expenditure. This Information is on\npage 43 of the Ministry of Finance estimates for 1962/63. On\npage 20 salary scales for the staff are listed. On page XV\n(Roman numerals) you will find the Archaeologists' salaries.\nNow, to find out how much the Government actually spent, the\nthing to do is to look up the Appropriation Accounts of the\nMinistry of Finance (another Government publicationj. This\nnormally comes out eighteen months after the estimates. These\npublications are freely available at the National Library and\nthere should be no difficulty at all in getting the information.\n\nI hope you and Hallie have recovered from your very tiring\ntime. It was very pleasant seeing you both and I am sure the\nprogrammes will turn out well. I listened to \u2019\u2019Interior Voices\u201d\non the Third on Sunday night and thought the programme very\neffective. I hear it is to be repeated on February 4th.\n\nFrances is quite willing to send down the Markey painting\nyou admired. .As it is very difficult to pack owing to its\nlength - and it is only cardboard, Frances suggests we wait for\na week or two in the hope that we may hear of some one going to\nDublin who would be willing to take it. I hope this will do.\n\nEver\n\n(John Boyd)\n\nFrank O'Connor Esq.,\n22 Court Flats,\nWilton Place,\nDUBLIN\n\nJB/FJ\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1171"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd039","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1963 Oct 9th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd039","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Louis MacNeice","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd039","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd039_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff9th October 1963.\n\nDear Jack:\n\nThank you very much for\nLouis MacNeice's photograph.\nI shall get it enlarged. Many\nthanks indeed.\n\nI am glad you enjoyed last\nnight. I think a good perfor-\nmance was given by all - always\nexcepting the producer! \n\nEver\n\n(John Boyd)\n\nJohn E.Sayers Esq.,\nBelfast Telegraph,\nRoyal Avenue,\nBelfast I.\n\nJB/FJ\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1172"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd040","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1963 Oct 11th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd040","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Shy, Genius","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd040","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd040_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff11th October 1963.\n\nBelfast Telegraph,\nir'.O. Box 25,\nBelfast I.\n\nDear Sirs:\n\nMr.John Boyd has asked me to\nacknowledge and thank you for your\ncheque for five guineas in payment\nof \"The Shy Genius\" which he received\nthis morning*\n\nYours faithfully,\n\n(Frances Jackson)\nSecretary to John Boyd\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1173"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd041","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1963 Oct 11th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd041","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Belfast Telegraph","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd041","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd041_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffAll claims and queries\nto be addressed to:\u2014\n\nAccounts Dept.\n\n(Editorial and Illustrations),\nP.O. Box 25,\n\nBelfast 1,\n\nN. Ireland.\n\nBELFAST TELEGRAPH\n\nProprietors H\n\nTelephone: 21242\nTelegrams: baird, Belfast\nBELFAST TELEGRAPH NEWSPAPERS LTD.\n\nP.O. BOX 25,\n\nBELFAST 1, N. Ireland\n\n....John Boydj.. .Esq^.,...............\n\n.......................................\n\n....Qrmea^... Avenue.,...3e]_L.as.t,2..\n\nCORRESPONDENT\u2019S ACCOUNT FOR......September.,.19 6.3.\n\nDate SUBJECT SCH.  No.   Lines   Rate    \u00a3   S.  d.\n7.      The Shy Genius                      5       .. 5    0\n\n Expenses:                           \n\nClaims for Omissions and Expenses must be received not later than 20th of month following.  i\n                    5   5   0\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1174"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd042","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1964 Apr 7th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd042","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"W.H. Auden, Louis MacNeice","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd042","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd042_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff7th April 1964.\n\nDear Mr.Montelth:\n\nThank you very much for sending\nthe Memorial Address by W.H.Auden on\nLouis MacNeice. As I went to London\nto hear this address I am most grate-\nful to you for sending me this private\npublication.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(John Boyd)\n\nCharles Monteith Esq.,\nDirector,\nMessrs.Faber  & Faber Ltd.,\n24 Bussell Square,\nLondon, W.C.F.\n\nJB/FJ\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1175"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd043","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1964 Apr 20th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd043","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Election, House of Commons","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd043","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd043_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff20th April 1964.\n\nDear Alec:\n\nThank you very much for sending\nme your Election Address. It seems\nto me admirable. Certainly your\ndepth and breadth of experience should\nprove very valuable indeed in the\nHouse of Commons.\n\nWith best wishes,\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(John Boyd)\n\nTalks Producer,N.I.Region\n\nAlec Greer Esq.,\nWoodville,\nLurgan,\nCo.Armagh.\n\nJB/PJ\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1176"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd044","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1964 May 22nd","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd044","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Brian Friel","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd044","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd044_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff22nd May 1964.\n\nDear Brian:\n\nHere is the little play I wanted\nyou to see. Sorry I have not sent it\nbefore now. I wonder would you please\nsend it back to me some time as it is\nthe only copy I have.\n\nHope to see you soon -\nEver\n\n(John Boyd)\n\nBrian Friel Eeq.,\n13 Marlborough Street,\nDERRY.\n\nJB/PJ\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1177"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd045","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1964 Aug 7th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd045","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Justice, Opportunity","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd045","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd045_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffCOPY/\n\nAs from: c/o Mrs. Johnstone,\nSand End,\nBallywalter.\n\n7th Aug. 1964.\n\nDear Leslie:\n\nJust to tell you that, as promised, I got in\ntouch with the A.B.S: first through Sam Denton, and\nsecondly, through Ronny Sim, who as you know is on the\nNational Executive of the A.B.S. Both, I understand,\nhave been in touch with you; and I gather from them\nthat you will have to decide yourself whether or not\nthe A.B.S. is to take up your case. As you know your\ncolleagues have been very perturbed by it and so I hope\nthat you will see that justice is done.\n\nAs I'd only a brief opportunity of saying\"good-bye\"\nto you, may I add that I've appreciated very much the\nopportunity of working with you, and wish you all the\nbest of good luck in what happens in the future.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(JOHN BOYD)\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1178"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd046","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1964 Nov 13th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd046","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Death, Ireland","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd046","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd046_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff13th November 1964.\n\nDear Agnes:\n\nI was very shocked to learn\nof Tom's sudden death. I don't\nknow what to say to you now except\nthat your loss is irreparable.\nAnd so is Ireland's. I shall\nwrite to you again. This is only\na brief note as I am rushing off\nto a doctor with a threat infection.\n\nYours ever,\n\n(John Boyd)\n\nMrs.Finnegan,\n38 Wesley Hill,\nBirmingham, 29.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1179"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd047","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1965 Jun 14th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd047","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"God, W.B. Yeats","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd047","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd047_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffReference JB/MM\n\n14th June 1965.\n\nDear Margaret,\n\nI should have sent you these photographs before now\nbut omitted to do so. They got temporarily mislaid I fear.\nHowever, I have found them in a drawer and am hastening to\nrectify my lamentable omission. I do hope you will forgive\nme. I think they turned out quite well.\n\nI have had letters from John D. and I understand he\nis coming back to Ireland this summer. What Joan and his\nfuture plans will be God only knows - because I do not!\n\nI have an idea nevertheless that he will settle in Ireland\nbecause Ireland is a good country to settle in, he has plenty\nof friends here, and his writing market is mostly here. I\nwill be delighted, of course, to have him around.\n\nI understand that Eve has become engaged to the young\nman whom I think she was nearly engaged to before - the\nProfessor's son - but I am very vague about young men I do\nnot know.\n\nI hope you are all well in your distant island.\n\nAnyhow please excuse this brief note as I am just back from a\nlong trip to the West of Ireland doing programmes on the\nfamous poet - W.B. Yeats - whose centenary it is.\n\nWith very best wishes to you and your family,\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nMrs. Margaret Barwick,\nJudge's Residence,\nBairiki,\nTarawa,\nGilbert and Ellice Island Colony,\nWEST PACIPIC OCEAN\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1180"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd048","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1965 Aug 16th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd048","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Michael McLaverty","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd048","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd048_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff16th August 1965.\n\nDear Michael:\n\nThank you very much indeed.\n\nI shall treasure the autographed\ncopy of The Brightening Day. It\nwas very kind of you. I am just\noff on holiday and will read it\nwith all the care it merits. I\ncan\u2019t think of a better book to\ntake up to the County Dowm coast.\n\nEvery good wish -\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(John Boyd)\n\nMichael McLaverty Esq.,\n30 Deramore Drive,\nBELFAST, 9.\n\nJB/FJ\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1181"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd049","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1965 Nov 29th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd049","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Belfast, Parker","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd049","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd049_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff29 November 1965.\n\nDear Stewart:\n\nGlad to get your news. I am de-\nlighted, of course, to act as a referee\non your behalf, and I very much hope\nthat you will get the job. Yoy cer-\ntainly would be on excellent choice for\nit.\n\nBelfast has been very busy - or at\nleast a few thousand people have been -\ncoming and going to Festival activities.\nProbably some of your correspondents\nhave given you all the news.\n\nCongratulations on your marriage!\nA very appropriately named wife! I am\nlooking forward to meeting you both soon.\nWhen you return to Belfast do give me a\nring and we could have lunch together.\n\nWith best wishes,\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(John Boyd)\n\nTalks Producer,N.1.Region\n\nStewart Parker Esn.,\n1200 Griffin Road,\nClinton,\nNEW YORK.\n\nJB/FJ\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:28","Nid":"1182"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd050","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1966 Apr 14th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd050","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Friel, Doyle","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd050","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd050_4.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff28 Rosetta Avenue,\n\nBELFAST, 7.\n\n14th April, 1966.\n\nThe Editor,\nThe Irish Times,\nWestmoreland Street,\nDUBLIN.\n\nSir:\n\nYour review last Saturday of Brian Friel's The Gold in\nthe Sea, though not unfavourable in tone, strikes me as\ndistinctly odd in judgement. Your reviewer compares Mr.Friel's\nwork to Lynn Doyle\u2019s, a comparison which, I suggest, betrays\nan imperfect understanding of both writers. Doyle was, of\ncourse, an admirable craftsman, but his qualities are not those\nof Mr.Friel's. Miss Edna O'Brien and other distinguished\nshort story writers have compared Mr.Friel\u2019s art with that of\nChekov: I suspect they know what they are talking about.\nCertainly Mr.Friel's best stories have 'an exceedingly complex\ncharm, deriving from a literary art which is unquestionably\npurer, more essential, more lyrical, more concentrated than\nthe novel.' The quotation is from Moravia, and It seems to\nme relevant to Mr.Friel's art.\n\n(John Boyd)\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:36","Nid":"1183"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd051","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1966 Apr 29th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd051","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Hewitt, Beckett","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd051","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd051_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff29 April, 1966.\n\nBear John:\n\nThank you very much for the booklet - Coventry,\nIt reads very smoothly indeed and is full of interest.\nI like your reference to Alderman John Hewitt in the\n18th century. Also to the Lillibullery incident.\nAnd also to all the writers.\n\nWe are here just embarked on a History of Belfast\nseries under Beckett and Glasscock (Department of Geo-\ngraphy at Queen's). This won't appear for at least\na year but should make a useful contribution to our\nlocal history.\n\nThe time I hope is near when you will be once\nagain in your native city. Couldn't you give me warn-\ning of your arrival?\n\nEver\n\n(John Boyd)\n\nTalks Producer,N.I.Region\n\nJohn Hewitt Esq.,\n5 Postbridge Road,\nStyvechale,\nCoventry.\nJB/PJ\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:36","Nid":"1184"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd052","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1966 Jun 9th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd052","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Producer","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd052","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd052_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff9th June 1966\n\nDeer John,\n\nSorry I missed you. Thank you\nfor letting me see the correspondence.\nVery interesting.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(John Boyd)\nTalks Producer, N.I. Region\n\nJ.D. Stewart, Esq.,\n96, Stranmillis Road,\nBelfast 9.\n\nDC\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:36","Nid":"1185"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd053","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1966 Aug 1st","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd053","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Children, Friel","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd053","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd053_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff1st August 1966.\n\nDear Brian:\n\nI telephoned you this morning, got your father,\ntalked to him, told him I wanted to see you on\nThursday, 4th August, 2.45 p.m., as I have arranged\na playback of Cass from 3.0-4.30 p.m.\n\nSorry I hadn't time to have a chat with you on\nFriday, everybody was running round in circles.\n\nI heard Cass and think it splendid - anyhow we will\nhave a chat after the playback.\n\nI have the story finished for you but propose\nkeeping it for Thursday. Hope you had a good holiday\nat K. I will give you our saga on Thursday. Why\nnot bring Anne and the children up? I'm sure she\nwould like to hear the playback: Elizabeth could mind\nthe family for the couple of hours. How say you?\n\nEver\n\n(John Boyd)\n\nTalks Producer,N.I.Region\n\nBrian Friel Esq.,\n13 Marlborough Park,\nDERRY CITY.\n\n(TO AWAIT ARRIVAL)\n\nFJ\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:36","Nid":"1186"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd054","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1966 Aug 8th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd054","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Friel, Threshold","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd054","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd054_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff8 August 1966.\n\nDear Mary:\n\nBrian Friel has doubtless got in\ntouch with you and told you that I pro-\nmised to forward to you this short story\n\"The Airgun\" for Threshold. I hope it\nis suitable. I am sorry about the\ntyping. If I had more time I would\nhave made still another draft, but I\ntend to correct and correct ad infinitum.\n\nWith best wishes.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(John Boyd)\n\nMrs. O\u2019Malley,\n11 Derryvolgie Avenue,\nBELFAST 9\n\nJB/FJ\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:36","Nid":"1187"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd055","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1966 Nov 11th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd055","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Festival, Fitzwilliam","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd055","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd055_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff11 November 1966.\n\nDeer Michael:\n\nI enclose \u00a31 in cash for my\nAnnual Membership to the Festival\nSociety. I telephoned your secre-\ntary today and she is sending on\nthe ticket.\n\nWith best wishes\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(John Boyd)\n\nTalks Producer,N.I .Region\n\nMichael Emmerson Esq.,\nFestivall 66 Office,\n40 Fitzwilliam Street,\nBELFAST 9\n\nJB/FJ\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:36","Nid":"1188"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd056","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1967 Mar 21st","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd056","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Bell, Threshold","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd056","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd056_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffJohn Boyd\n\n203* 7 Bedford Street 137\nTHRESHOLD ANTHOLOGY\n\n21 st March 1967\n\nH.A.N.I.\n\nI have been asked, in conjuction with Mr. Bell, to compile\nan anthology of Ulster writing 1945-1967 for the next edition\nof \"Threshold\". I should be glad to have permission.\n\n(John Boyd)\n\nDC\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:36","Nid":"1189"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd057","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1967 Aug 30th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd057","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Stewart, Blackout","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd057","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd057_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff30th August 1967\n\nDear Mrs. Parker,\n\nI expect Stewart has told you that\nI had a mental blackout. I am completely\ncontrite and ashamed of it. All I can\noffer you is my apologies. When I\nrealised what I had done, I had an awful\nfeeling of horror and of increa sing age!\n\nWith boot wishes to you both.\n\n(John Boyd)\n\nMrs. S. Parker,\nPlat 3,\n92 Eglantine Avenue,\nBelfast, 9.\n\nDC\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:36","Nid":"1190"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd058","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1967 Aug 30th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd058","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Lovers, Hewitt","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd058","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd058_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff30th August 1367\n\nDear Brian,\n\nA jinx is on you and me. I did want to see you, of course,\nbut I am afraid contact was not made. I rang Muff yesterday\nbut got no reply. However, I will try again. Sean was good\nenough to tell me that 'Philadelphia' opens in London. Hope all\ngoes well.\n\nSaw 'Lovers': great pleasure but was unfortunately not sober\nhaving been to a dinner narty in Dublin beforehand. Met Hewitt\nat gate, who was enthusiastic. He enjoyed 1) more than 2), but\ndid get some laughter out of 2). Would like to discuss sometime\nbefore we are both too old and crabbity.\n\nLove to Ann and the family.\n\nI am messing around here with old television and a lot of\nother stuff. I want a whine over your shouler some day soon.\n\n(John Boyd)\n\nBrian Friel, Esq.,\nArdmore,\nMuff,\nLifford,\nCo. Donegal.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:36","Nid":"1191"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd059","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1968 Nov 19th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd059","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Anecdotage, Scandanavian","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd059","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd059_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff19 November 1968\n\nDear Menna:\n\nIn haste- because of the Festival.\nI have just forwarded your inscribed\ncopy of STRIKE FOR A KINGDOM to Wales.\nAn inscribed first edition of a first\nbook by you Is very valuable and I am\nasking for its return. Does this seem\nmean? I heard William Plomer lecture\nyesterday. Drippy anecdotage. Saw\na Queen\u2019s production of a Scandinavian\ndramatist called Holberg - like a rugby\nscrum. I will give you all my news\nsoon\n\nBlessings\n\n(John Boyd)\n\nMrs.Gallie,\n38 parkside,\nCAMBRIDGE\n\nJB/FJ\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:36","Nid":"1192"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd060","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1968 Nov 19th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd060","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Novel, Cardiff","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd060","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd060_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff19 November 1968\n\nDear Miss Davies:\n\nI enclose a copy of Menna Gallie's\nSTRIKE FOR A KINGDOM. As you see it\nis an inscribed copy so perhaps you\nwould kinely return it to me when you\nhove read it. I think it is a most\ninteresting novel.\n\nWith best wishes,\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(John Boyd)\n\nTalks Producer,N.I.Region\n\nMiss Lorraine Davie's\nDrama Department\nBBC\nLlandass ,\nCardiff.\nWALES.\n\nJB/FJ\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:36","Nid":"1193"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd061","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1968 Nov 21st","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd061","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Programme","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd061","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd061_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff21 November, 1968\n\nDear St.John:\n\nI Saw \"Boyd's Shop\" last night\nin the Grove Theatre. It got a\nrousing reception and played as fresh\nas paint. I enclose a programme to\nlet you see who was playing.\n\nI enjoyed visiting you some weeks\nago and hope you are keeping well.\n\nWith best wishes,\n\nEver\n\n(JOHN BOYD)\n\nDr .St.John Ervine,\nFitzhall Nursing Home,\nIping,\nMidhurst,\n\nSussex.\n\nJB/FJ\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:36","Nid":"1194"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd062","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1969 Sep 26th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd062","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Dublin, Viennise","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd062","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd062_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff26 September 1969\n\nDear Waldo:\n\nJa'\u2019t to say that if you have a\nfree evening next week and felt like\na visit to Dublin I would be very\nglad indeed to get a seat or seats\nfor you in the Gaiety. Frances\nJackson knows my telephone number in\nDublin. I may warn you, however,\nthat the play would not take your\nmind off your work! If your mind is\nlike mine at the moment you would rather\nsee a play called \"Vienese Nights\"\nplus a thousand dancing girls!\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(John Boyd)\n\nWaldo Maguire Esq.,\nBH\nBelfast.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:36","Nid":"1195"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd063","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1970 Jun 17th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd063","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Novel, Cambridge","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd063","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd063_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff17 Jun 1970\n\nDear Menna:\n\nYour novel arrived safelu\nI am starting it at once. Have\nalready read 30 pages. I think\nit very good.\n\nEver\n(John Boyd)\n\nMrs. Menna Gallie\n38 Parkside\nCambridge\nEngland.\n\nJB/CJ\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:36","Nid":"1196"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd064","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1970 Jun 22nd","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd064","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Friel, Mournes","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd064","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd064_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff22nd June, 1970.\n\nMrs. Mennna Gallie,\n38 Parkside,\nCAMBRIDGE.\n\nDear Menna,\n\nI return your proofs which I read during a fairly hectic\nweekend - ranging from a visit to Donegal to make a recording\nwith Brian Friel to a visit to the Mournes with three lively\nAfricans! Any comments must be treated with proper disrespect -\nas usual.\n\nI don't think you have made any major, or indeed minor\nhowlers. I have enclosed a lot of tiny textual minutiae\njotted these down without a dictionary to hand, and sometimes\nlate at night. So double check them. Hope you can make out\nmy writing.\n\nNow for the novel itself. I. think the descriptive\nwriting is brilliant. Also all the women characters. You\ndeal less successfully with men. Caroline and Una are fine\ncreations. Sarah too - except I think she should think more\noften of her dead husband. Both the professor and the\njournalist are incompletely realised, particularly the journalist.\n\nTowards the end the material seems to swamp you. The\nWelsh lad added a complication which distressed me. I am a\ngreat one for keeping to a fairly straight story line. This\nof course, may be the dramatic discipline that binds me down.\n\nI was very worried indeed by the melodramatic note towards the\nend. Cried outs \"God, restraint, restraint\" - you galloped over\nbogland and mountainside like Lochinvar or somebody. I wanted\nto say \"Calmez-vous\"!\n\nTher you are. I hope I get a letter in return!\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nJOHN BOYD\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:36","Nid":"1197"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd065","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1970 Sep 25th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd065","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Arts Council","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd065","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd065_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff25 September 1970\n\nDear Paul:\n\nHere is the photograph - as\nrequested. I should be glad to\nsee - if possible- a copy of the\narticle.\n\nWith best wishes,\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(John Boyd)\n\nPaul Clarke Esq.,\nArts Council,\nBedford House.\n\nJB/FJ\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:36","Nid":"1198"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd066","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1971 Sep 19th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd066","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Friel, Belfast, Canada","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd066","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd066_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff19 September 1971\n\nDear Desmond:\n\nSorry for the delay in commenting\non the Friel chapters. I have two\nexcuses: the first is the IRA (presum-\nably) bombed us out of Bedford Street\nrather effectively on the day before I\nstarted on three weeks leave which I am\nnow enjoying! In Belfast!! I have\nread the chapters. They seem to me\nfirst class. I have got from them many\ninsights into Brian's plays and I thought\nI knew the plays reasonably well. I am\ngoing to re-read the chapters and I shall\nwrite to you again.\n\nBrian is doing a 'Self Portrait* pro-\ngramme for me which may be very interest-\ning indeed.\n\nI will write to you again when I get\nmy wits gathered.\n\nWith best wishes to Joy and to all\nmy friends in York.\n\nEver\n\n(John Boyd)\n\nProfessor D.Maxwell,\n79 Royal Orchard Boulevard,\nThornhill,\nOntario, Canada.\n\nJB/FJ\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:36","Nid":"1199"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd067","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1972 Mar 23rd","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd067","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Play, Belfast","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd067","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd067_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff23 March 1972\n\nDear George:\n\nThank you very much for sending me\nthe novel. I have read it with great\npleasure - your best since ROSE FORBES.\nIndeed I prefer it to ROSE. As you say\nit should be re-read and I have done\nexactly that. It is at least a decade\nbefore its time, but I hope you have it\npublished here.\n\nI enjoyed our session very much in-\ndeed. I am now in the midst of revising\na play for production in May. At the\nmoment I am very tired of it - and of the\nwhole atmosphere in Belfast.\n\nWith best wishes,\n\nEver\n\n(John Boyd)\n\nGeorge Buchanan Esq.,\n27 Ashley Gardens,\nLondon, S.W.I.\n\nJB/FJ\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:36","Nid":"1200"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd068","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1972 Apr 25th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd068","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Farm, London","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd068","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd068_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff28 Rosetta Avenue, Belfast 7.\n\n25 April, 1972\n\nDear John:\n\nI hope you got my letter of accept-\nance . As you probably noticed, I ham-\nmered it out. I am trying to write this\nplay, but naturally it is taking a different\ncourse. The main character, who is called\nOmar (!) should play humorously and finally\nhe returns to the boarding house and settles\ndown there in the hope that he will marry\nthe lady of the house and make his manual\ndexterity even more useful!\n\nThe Farm is in rehearsal here and\ngoing very well indeed. I will speak to\nthe management about getting in touch with\nyou about terms.\n\nI wonder would you tell me if there is\nanything else I have to do about this tele-\nvision play. I am doing my best but it is\ndifficult.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(John Boyd)\n\nJohn Bassett Esq.\nBryan Drew Limited,\n81 Shatesbury Avenu,\nLONDON, W1V 8DQ\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:36","Nid":"1201"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd069","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1972 Oct 27th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd069","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Assassin, Texas","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd069","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd069_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff28 Rosetta Avenue\n\nBelfast 7,\n\nNorthern Ireland.\n27th October 1972\n\nBear Professor Mangum,\n\nI hope you got my letter-card. here\nis the script of \"The flats\". As I told you\nthis is probably the play David Marcus had in\nmind. Certainly It is one of my plays which\nis central to \u2019the troubles': it could be\nargued, however, that \"The Assassin\" is equally\nso. \"The Assassin\u201d may be better for your\npurposes as it includes a large number of\nstudents in the cast. So, if part; of the\npurpose of producing the play is to encourage\nparticipation of students as actors \"The Assassin\"\nmight well be the play - in which case I will\nforward a copy of it, if you let me knew.\n\nIn the meantime I should be glad to\nhave your comments on \"The Flats\". If you\nwant any further information i\u2018ll be glad to\nlet you have it for instance, you may like\nto see the press comment, etc.\n\nWith best wishes,\n\nYours sincerely.\n\nProfessor Edward Magnum,\n\nChairman, Dept, of\nFine & Performing Arts,\nSt.Edwards University,\nAustin, Texas 78704\n\n(John Boyd)\n\nEnc.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:36","Nid":"1202"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd070","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1973 Mar 28th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd070","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Cheque","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd070","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd070_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff28 Rosetta Avenue,\nBelfast 7\n\n29th Marrch 1973\n\nDear Chris,\n\nI enclose a cheque for Two-Hundred-and-\nFifty rounds. Perhaps you'd kindly acknowledge\nit arrived ok.\n\n\u00a3200.00 is my own money; \u00a350.00 from\nBill Haughton, the writer; and I hope to\nget another \u00a350.00 by next week.\n\nHow are you faring? With your own\n\u00a350.00 and Brian Friels \u00a3100.00 - we're up\nto the \u00a3400.00 in cash.\n\nDrop me a line to tell me about\nrehearsal dates and times; cast; and\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:36","Nid":"1203"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd071","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1973 Mar 28th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd071","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Rhythm","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd071","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd071_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffopening.\n\nI do hope all goes well.\nDon't 'obey' the punctuation - I always\nfind each actor has a different rythmn.\n\nEver,\n\n John Boyd\n\nP.S.hope 5 scripts arrivem psoted yesterday.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:36","Nid":"1204"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd072","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1973 Mar 29th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd072","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Dublin","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd072","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd072_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff28 Rosetta Avenue,\nBelfast 7\n\n29th Marrch 1973\n\nDear Chris,\n\nI enclose a cheque for Two-Hundred-and-\nFifty rounds. Perhaps you'd kindly acknowledge\nit arrived ok.\n\n\u00a3200.00 is my own money; \u00a350.00 from\nBill Haughton, the writer; and I hope to\nget another \u00a350.00 by next week.\n\nHow are you faring? With your own\n\u00a350.00 and Brian Friels \u00a3100.00 - we're up\nto the \u00a3400.00 in cash.\n\nDrop me a line to tell me about\nrehearsal dates and times; cast; and\nopening.\n\nI do hope all goes well.\nDon't 'obey' the punctuation - I always\nfind each actor has a different rythmn.\n\nEver,\n\n John Boyd\n\nP.S.hope 5 scripts arrivem psoted yesterday.\n\nChris O'Neill,\n9 Cunningham Drive,\nDalkey,\nDublin,\nIreland.\n\nEnc.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:36","Nid":"1205"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd073","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1973 Jun 25th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd073","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Belfast, Derry, Dublin, Limerick","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd073","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd073_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffFrom: John Boyd,\n\n28 Rosetta Avenue,\nBelfast 7,\n\nhorchern Ireland\n\n25th June 1973\n\n1 understanf from Mrs. Fidelma Donnelly\nthat you were in Dublin recently and saw my play\n'The Flats' at the Eblana theatre. Mrs, Donnelly\ntold me that you would be interested in having\nit translated into French, If this is so, I\nshould be very pleased indeed.\n\nYour name has been very familiar to me\nfor many years - indeed ever since Transition\ndays, I am of course a student of my great\ncountryman, James Joyce.\n\nI hope you enjoyed 'The Flats' it is a\nplay which has had a remarkable reception in\nBelfast, Derry, and Dublin, and it is being\npresented at the Limerick festival in mid-\nAugust.\n\nI am very grateful to you for your interest,\nand if you would like me to forward a script\nI shall do so. As a matter of fact I was\nplanning to visir paris in early September, and\nshould be very glad to have an opportunity of\nmeeting you.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nMme. Jolas,\n106 Bis Rue de Rennes,\nParis 5ieme.\nFrance.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:36","Nid":"1206"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd074","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1976 Jan 22nd","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd074","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Brian Friel, Joseph Tomelty, Louis MacNeice","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd074","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd074_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff22nd January 1976\n\nProfessor John Braidwood,\nDepartment of English,\nThe Queen\u2019s University,\nBelfast 9.\n\nDear John,\n\nI don\u2019t really tnink I'm the best person to help with your citation for Harold\nGoldblatt, but I'll do what I can. I've never been a close personal friend of his,\nthough I've known him professionally for many years.\n\nHe was one of the three founders of the Ulster Group Theatre. Rhe other two being\nJames Mageean (BBC Drama producer) and Robert McCandless (one of Ulster's outstanding\nactors). H.G. was not only an administrator, he was also a director (to use the\nmodern term for producer) and a leading actor. Under his aegis the Group was\nextremely successful: premieres by dramatists such as George Shields, St.John Ervine,\nBrian Friel, Joseph Tomelty, Louis MacNeice, Michael J. Murphy, Patricia Connor,\nand many other Ulster dramatists were given. H. G. also brought together a\nprofessional team of actors unique in the history of Ulster drama. These include\nColin Blakley (now with the National Theatre in London), Stephen Boyd (the holywood\n'star'), Elizabeth Begley, Margaret D'Arcy, Robert McCandless, J. G. Devlin,\nJoseph Tomelty, and many others.\n\nH.G. himself is a distinguished and versatile actor who has had success in the\ntheatre, in radio, on television, and in films. As a stage actor he has appeared\nall over Ireland and England (including the West End of London); he has acted in\nthousands of radio programmes; appeared over a hundred times in television; and has\nhad parts in over forty films, working in Ireland, England, Holland, France, Morocco,\nand Yugo-Slavia.\n\nH.G. is also very interested in the Amateur Theatre movement, having acted as\nadjudicator in festivals throughout Ireland. He has close links with Queen's.\nProfessor H. 0. Meredith encouraged him to found the Group Theatre , and Sir Tyrone\nGuthrie was not only a close friend but also a colleague (Sir Tyrone produced plays\nfor H.G. ana also directed him in poetry and short story readings).\n\n- 1 -\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:39","Nid":"1207"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd075","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1976 Jan 22nd","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd075","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Sam Hanna Bell","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd075","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd075_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffProfessor John Braidwood contd - 2 -  22.1.76\n\nH. G. is an all-round man of the theatre - founder, administrator, director\nactor. In addition he has greatly encouraged young dramatists whose work\nhas shown promise; he has also given work and advancement to young actors.\nIn all, his contribution to drama both locally and further afirld, has seen\nsignificant.\n\nIf you require a few dates (and more detail) I suggest you consult\nThe Ulster Theatre by Sam Hanna Bell. It is in Queen's library.\n\nSomeone like J. J. Campbell probably knows a great aeai mo.e about H.G.\nthan I do. Or Ronald Mason, head of programmes in the BBC.\n\nHope the above is of some help.\n\nWith best wishes,\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(John doya)\n\nProfessor John Braidvood,\nDepartment of English,\nThe Queen's University,\nBelfast 9\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:39","Nid":"1208"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd076","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1976 Feb 4th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd076","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Paris, Germany","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd076","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd076_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNortnern Ireland\n\n4th February 1976\n\nDear Mr. Goldbaum,\n\nI understand from Mr. Wolfgang Nitsch, of\nStadtische Duhnen Osnabruck, there has been a\nmisunderstanding about my visit and lecture, and\nthat they are unable to pay my expenses,\nHowever, I have explained to Mr. Nitsch that my\nplans are too far advanced to alter them, and that\nI shall go ahead and see the premiere of The Flats,\nand also give the lecture, preferably for an\nhonorarium. Before going to Osnabruck I plan to\nspend a week in Paris from the 14th March, If\nyou want to contact me my Paris address is\n\nC/o, Hotel Saint-Paul,\n43 Rue Monsieur-le-Prince,\nParis 6, France,\n\nI have told Mr, Nitsch that I forwarded to you a\ncopy of my lecture for possible translation.\nI hope you received this lecture safely.\n\nI am giving a lecture at the Sorbonne on my work\nat the request of a Professor there.\n\nI shall be very glad to hear your news. I hope\nall is well,\n\nVours sincerely,\n(John Boyd)\n\nPeter Goldbaum,\nPetor Goldbaum Produktion,\n8 Munchen-Allach,\nRiezleweg 4, MUNICH,\nW. Germany\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:39","Nid":"1209"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd077","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1976 Jun 21st","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd077","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Anthology","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd077","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd077_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffAs from 28 Rosetta Avenue, Belfast 7\n\n21st June 1976\n\nDear Jimmy,\n\nSorry for the delay in sending you this\nnote to affirm that you have my permission\nto publish ny poem Visit to a School in\nthe anthology which you mentioned you have\nin hand.\n\nWith best wishes,\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(John Boyd)\n\nHr. James Gracey,\nBlackstaff Press\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:39","Nid":"1210"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd078","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1976 Jun 21st","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd078","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Threshold","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd078","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd078_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffPOSTAGE STAMPS ' THRESHOLD' No.27\n\nAGENTS (invoices only, letter mail)      9 61/2d.\n                        5 10p\n\nPRIVATE PERSONALs (UO & EIRE) ' LOVAL'       18 @ 18 1/2p  Not to be posted yet\n\nPRIVATE PERSONS (FOREIGN)            15 & 43p\n\nUNIVERSITIES, SCHOOLS, Institutions etc. LOCAL   13 @ 18 1/2p  Not to be posted yet\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:39","Nid":"1211"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd079","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1976 Aug 10th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd079","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Rehearsals, Lyric","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd079","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd079_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffPlease reply to: John Boyd, 28 Rosetta Avenue, Belfast 7, N. Ireland\n\n10th August 1976\n\nPeter Goldbaum,\nPeter Goldbaum Produktion,\n8 Munchen-Allach,\nRiezler-Weg 4,\nMunich, W.GERMANY\n\nDear- Mr. Goldbaum,\n\nI was wondering how your arrangements for touring\nThe Flats are proceeding? Wolfgang Nitsch, the\nDirector at Osnabruck, kindly sent me some reviews.\nThey seem to be favourable, especially the one of\nDie Deutsche Buhne.\n\nI enjoyed my short stay in Osnabruck, saw some\nrehearsals, gave a lecture at the Hochschule, but\nunfortunately - due to a flu epidemic - missed the\nactual performance. however, I understand the play\ngot a very good reception.\n\nSorry we were unable to meet in Paris , but perhaps\nwe may meet sometime soon. In the meantime, I would\nbe most grateful to hear your news.\n\nWith best wishes,\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(John Boyd)\n\nLYRIC PLAYERS THEATRE\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:39","Nid":"1212"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd080","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1976 Aug 10th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd080","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Lynch, Threshold","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd080","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd080_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff10th August 1976\n\nDear Michael,\n\nMrs O\u2019Malley has passed me your letter of 22nd June\nabout, Martin Lynch. As I deal with most of the\naspiring playwrights I would certainly be glad to\nmeet him. Perhaps you would ask him to phone\nthe lyric and arrange a meeting. I have not got\nhis address, else I would get in touch.\n\nI have at last got all the contributions for\nThreshold, except Ken Jamison's. He kindly agreed\na week or so ago to contribute an article on\n'Illustrators of the Sixties*.\n\nI think  this is going to be a good number. We were\nlucky to get Knox Cunningham\u2019s contribution before\nhis death.\n\nWith best wishes,\n\nYours,\n\n(John Boyd)\n\nLYRIC PLAYERS THEATRE\n\nMichael Longley, hsq.,\nArts Council of Northern Ireland,\n181a Stranmillis Road,\nBelfast BT9 9DU\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:39","Nid":"1213"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd081","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1977 Aug 23rd","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd081","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Blackstaff, Director","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd081","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd081_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff23rd August 1977\n\nEdmund A. Vitale,\nIrish Arts Center,\nNew. Y ork, USA\n\nDear M r. Vitale,\n\nI understand Mr. James Gracey of Blackstaff Press, who\npublished The Flats, telephoned to tell me that The Irish\nArts Center wishes to do another production of the play.\n\nI was not in when he called and I have not yet seen the\nletter which, I understand, is dated 11th August, and\nwhich Mr. Gracey has only now forwarded to me (it has not\nyet arrived!). I am therefore getting in touch with\nyou as soon as I possibly could, in order that you may\ncommunicate directly with me.\n\nI am very pleased that the Center is doing another\nproduction of The Flats, and I am sure we can reach a\nsatisfactory arrangement. I should he glad to Know\nwho is directing, and other derails.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(John Boyd)\n\nHon. Director & Literary Advisor\nTHE LYRIC PLAYERS THEATRE\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:39","Nid":"1214"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd082","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1977 Dec 6th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd082","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"O'Casey, German","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd082","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd082_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffCOPY\n\nAs from 28 Rosetta Avenue, Belfast 7\n\n6th September 1977\n\nM. Dumay,\n14 Rue de Gaulle,\n21240 Talant,\nPrance,\n\nDear M. Dumay,\n\nMy friend Eileen O'Casey kindly gave me your name when\nI was enquiring about a French translator for one of my\nplays called THE FLATS.\n\nThis play has had great success throughout Ireland, has also had a\nsuccessful production in Germany, and is going on at a New York\noff-off-Broadway theatre for the 2nd time this Autumn.\n\nAltogether it has proved to be very popular play, and has\nbeen compared to O'Casey - hence Eileen O'Casey's interest in\nmy work.\n\nWhen I was lecturing at the Sorbonne about a year ago a Paris\ngroup were interested in a French production, and I began to\nthink about a French translation. If you would be interested\nI would send you a copy of the play (it has been published and\ngone into two editions), and T would also send you some of the\nnotices from Irish, American, and German newspapers.\n\nI understand from Eileen O'Casey that you have already\ntranslated FIGURE IN THE NIGHT and some of Sean's later\nplays. I don't think, therefore, that you would find my\nidiom particularly difficult. I would of course give you\nevery co-operation.\n\nI am familiar enough with French, and visit Paris from time to\ntime, but I thinght it best to write to you in English.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nJOHN BOYD (signed)\n\n(Copy of original letter transcribed from shorthand, due to\nloss of copy)\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:39","Nid":"1215"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd083","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1977 Dec 8th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd083","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"O'Casey, Paris","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd083","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd083_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff8th September 1977\n\nMonsieur E.J.Dumay,\nRue de Gaulle,\n21240 Talant,\nFrance.\n\nDear M. Dumay,\n\nMy friend Eileen O\u2019Casey kindly gave me your name\nwhen I was enquiring about a French translator for\none of my plays called THE FLATS.\n\nThis play had had great success throughout Ireland,\nhas also had a successful production in Germany, and\nis going on at an off-off Broadway theatre for the\nsecond time this autumn. Altogether it has proved to\nbe a very popular play, and has been compared to\nO\u2019Casey - hence Eileen O\u2019Casey\u2019s interest in my work.\n\nAbout a year ago when I was lecturing at the Sorbonne\na Paris group were interested in a French production,\nand I began to think about a French translation.\nIf you would be interested I would send you a copy\nof the play (it has been published and gone into two\neditions), and I would also send you some of the notices\nfrom Irish, American and German newspapers. I understand\nfrom Eileen O\u2019Casey that you have already translated\nFigure in the Night and some of Sean\u2019s later plays.\nI don\u2019t think, therefore, that you would find my idiom\nparticularly difficult. I should of course give you\nevery co-operation.\n\nI am familiareenough with French, and visit Paris from\ntime to time, but I thought it best to write to you in\nEnglish.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(John Boyd)\nLiterary Advisor,\nTHE LYRIC PLAYERS THEATRE\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:39","Nid":"1216"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd084","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1977 Dec 7th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd084","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Plough","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd084","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd084_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff7th September 1977\n\nDear Eileen,\n\nThank you very much for your help.\n\nYou have gone to a lot of trouble, and\nI am most grateful, I am writing to\nM. Dumay, and hope he will be willing\nto co-operate.\n\nAs usual I am very busy, I see that my\nfriend Bill Bryden is producing 'Plough'\nin the National Theatre, and - as you\nprobably know - 'Plough' is being\nproduced at The Lyric this November,\nSo, as the kids here say 'O'Casey Rules'!\nI expect they say it in Dublin too.\nIf they don't, it seems the right catchword\nto start it off with!\n\nWith all best wishes,\n\nMrs, Eileen O'Casey,\n13 Mulgrave Terrace,\nDun Laoghaire,\nCo, Dublin\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:39","Nid":"1217"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd085","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1977 Dec 6th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd085","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Play, Dublin","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd085","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd085_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff\nCor. With Eileen O'Casey\nre french Translations\n\n\n6th December 1977\n\nDear Eileen,\n\nI should have- written to you before this, but I have been\nfinishing a new play; my wife has been in hospital for a\nminor operation and 1 have been visiting her every day and\nevening, air. attending hospital myself for eye trouble -\nnot serious.\n\nFirst I want to thankk you for putting me in touch with\nEmile Dumay, who has just completed a translation of\nThe Flats and seems very pleased with it. I have not of\ncourse read it yet. However, a couple of french theatres are\nalready interested in it. It was very kind indeed of you\nto mention my name to . Dumay.  My trouble about marketing\nmy play, is that I have not an Agent, and it's time that I\ngot one.\n\nThe other thing I wanted to tell you was that 'The Plough'\nis doing tremedous business at The lyric. The theatre is\npacked and the audiences art most enthusiastic. I understand\nthere was an article in 'The Listener' comparing the lyric\nproduction with the National Theatre(London) production, but\nI haven't read it yet. Probabiy you have. 'Juno' also got\nan excellent reception during its short visit here. So, all in\nall, it has been an o'Casey time in Belfast.\n\nI hope we can meet on my next visit to Dublin, and that you will\nhave a meal with me somewhere; the fact is I have been so\nbusy here I have hardly got beyond the suburbs of belfast.\nwhen I am tempted to go on a trip, 1 remember Sean's words\n'Get on with the bloody play'!\n\nWith many thanks again, and very best wishes for\nChristmas to your self - and all the family.\n\nYours ever,\n\nMrs.Eileen O'Casey,\n15 Mulgrave Terrace,\nDunlaoghaire,\nC.O. Dubin.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:39","Nid":"1218"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd086","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1977 Dec 10th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd086","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"O'Malley, Lyric","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd086","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd086_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff28 Rosetta Avenue\nBelfast 7,\nNorthern Ireland\n10th December 1977\n\nTo: The Editor,\n'The Listener'\nBBC Publications,\n35 Marylebone High Street,\nLondon WIM 4AA\n\nFor favour of publication\n\nSir,\n\nIn your issue of 24th November I read with interest - and appreciation\nMr. Elsom's article on the Belfast Festival. As a dramatist and\nex BBC producer in Northern Ireland for twenty-five years, and as\nhonorary director and literary advisor of the Lyric Theatre, I\nshould likce to comment on two sentences with reference to this\ntheatre.\n\nThe Lyric theatre (I quote Mr. Elsom) 'has the reputation in some\nquarters of being orientated towards the Republicans'.  'In some\nquarters' seems unnecessarily vague. Could Mr. Elsom be more\nexplicit? If he could, I should be most grateful.\n\nAgain, Mary O'Malley is referred to as 'sometimes regarded as\nBelfast's Lilian Baylis and sometimes as a confounded nuisance'.\nAs an Irish writer I should prefer to have Mary O'Malley compared\nwith Lady Gregory; but this comparison is fair enough, What is\nnot fair, however, is the 'confounded nuisance'. Does the petulance\nspring from the same anonymous 'quarters' whose political ineptitude\nis more than equalled by their artistic turpitude? Once more I\nseek illumination.\n\nHowever, there should now, at last, be great rejoicing in these\n'quarters' that so misrepresent Mary O'Malley's achievement.\nAfter a quarter of a century of strenuously idealistic and successful\nartistic activity in Belfast she has now left this city; and her\nmonument is the Lyric theatre whose achievement, particularly in\nthe last decade, speaks for itself. As for Mary O'Malley herself,\nmay I adapt a sentence of Sam Beckett: 'Adieu Mary, to whom we owe\nso much, share so much, and care so much'. The 'quarters' which\nwill approve of this judgment are all those who have benefited\nfrom the work of the Lyric Theatre.\n\nYours etc.\n\n(John Boyd)\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:39","Nid":"1219"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd087","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1978 Jan 12th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd087","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Agreement, Theatres","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd087","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd087_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff12th January 1978\n\nDear Eileen,\n\nHere is the information you kindly asked for in connection with M.Dumay,\ntranslator of my play The flats.\n\nSince September we have been exchanging letters about the text of the play etc.,\nand on the 24th December 1977 M.Dumay's translation arrived with me. I read\nit and was very pleased witn it, and wrote to tell him so, enclosing a letter*\nfrom the Bristish Society of Authors giving their suggestions as to the financial\narrangement between author and translator. This arrangement was that the\nroyalties were to be shared 50/50, and likewise expenses.  I had already told\nhim that I was willing to pay the highest rate for a first-class translator,\nand need him to find out from the equivalent french body what their suggestion\nwas.\n\nMr.Dumay, in his reply of 3rd January, made no reference to the Bristish Society\nof actors' suggested agreement; instead he quoted the French Society of Literary\nTranslations recommendations. I quote:-\n\n'The French Society of Literary  consider that the minimum to\nwhich a translator is entitled for a page the size of mine is 30 francs.\nSo the lump sum for my 155 pages would amount to at least 4,650 francs, that\nis, at the present exchange rate \u00a3520. Would you agree to this?\nAs for the expenses incurred they amount to:\n\ntyping 10 f. per page    1550f.  = \u00a3173.\nphotocopied     650f.   = $72.7\npostage         69f = \u00a37.7\n\nI leave it to you to decide on what term my work as your 'agent' will be\npaid,  *and how much of my expenses will be refunded to me ......'\n\nHe also enclosed a hand-writtem form of contract of his own, which he thought would\nbe suitable as incorporating the  French Literary Society's suggestions.\n\nAll this means that I would have to pay M.Dumay \u00a3773.4 plus an Agent's fee, to be\nagreed(This agent't fee is because neither of us has and agent, and M.Dumay has\nwritten to 26 theatres, 6 of which expressed interest and were forwarded copies\nof his translation. On top of all this he would require 50% of the author's\nroyalties(The British Societ of Authors had recommended the figure of\n\n- 1 -\n\n* I overlooked this sentence and therefore should not have included all the\nexpenses int the estimate(\u00a3773.4)\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:39","Nid":"1220"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd088","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1978 Jan 12th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd088","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Royalties, Authors","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd088","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd088_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffcont.   - 2  Mrs. Eileen O'Casey\n\na 50/50 royalties basis and a share of expenses - but this figure, according\nto the British Society of Authors whom I telephoned in great anxiety,\nsay is absolutely ridiculous. Thye suggested that perhaps a \u00a3520. would be\nin lieu of all royalties and expenses!\n\nAs i told you by telephone I am pleased with M.Dumay's translation, and\nI am very anxious to play fair with him, but it seems to me ludicrus that\nI would be ou money for a French production of my play unless it was\na long running smah hit in Paris and elsewhere. Equally of course I\ndo not wish to antagonize M.Dumay as I think he is probably acting in\ngood faith - having admitted that the whole arrangements of translation\nwere 'virgin soil to him'.\n\nI am most grateful to you for your help. Please thank John O'Riordan\ntoo.\n\n Yours Ever\n\nP.S. The Society of Authors is looking into the whole business\nfor me and have promised to write to me next week.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:39","Nid":"1221"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd089","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1978 May 24th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd089","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Speranza, Oscar","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd089","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd089_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff28 ROsetta Avenue\nBelfast 7\n24 May 1978.\n\nDear Tom,Thank you very much for your letter of the 23\n\nMay which I\u2019ve just received.\nFirst,I'm most grateful to you for taking an\ninterest in this play. May I give you my comments\non yours as best I can? One always thinks one's\nbaby is perfect. It never is of course: and the\nmore defects it has the more strenuously one\ndefends it!\nI'm glad you think the play is highly actable and\nstageworthy. THat to me is a lot. And I\u2019m glad\nyou think it succeeds as a narative of the\nWilde story: and at that level. That may not\nbe enough: but it's enough to go on with.\nTHe title SPSRANZA'S BOY shouldnt be given\ntoo much weight ; ** it is an effort to get away\nfrom calling it OSCAR or something like that.\n(In fact Brian F-without reading the play-supplied\nthe title gratis! Possibly I shouldnt have\naccepted it and if it is really misleading **\n*********** then I'll have to think again.)\n\nABOUT SPERANZA. I was conscious of\nher formidable presence becoming less and less:\nI think that's the way it was with her son and\nherself. She SENSED the way he was going after\n((and at) Oxford. Hence her eagerness to get him\nemotionally off her hands...and into Constance's\narms. Speranza gave him to Constance: and\nOscar,being Speranza\u2019s boy,obeyed his mother.\nThen Constance took over-but only for a short\nwhile. Then Bosie and the rest....\n\nI couldnt DO a scene between Speranza\n\nand Oscar because I dont think there ever was\none: and I know I'd make a mess of it.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:39","Nid":"1222"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd090","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1978 May 24th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd090","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Rehearsal, Verdict","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd090","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd090_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff2\n\n0ld Sir William had quite an influence on Oscar;\na deep influence which I\u2019d hoped I\u2019d suggested.\nPerhaps I\u2019ve somehow failed. But I wanted to\nhave both parents in some dark genetic way\nresponsible for the mixed-up man that Oscar became.\n\nYes,the final third is a kit rushed\nI suppose. I thought that the prison yard scene\nmight slow down the tempo a bit. The trouble\nof course is the usual one of selection-the\nmost significant scenes HAVE to go in....And\nhere God knows how it works-or fails to work.\nOnly in rehearsal can one find out.\n\nAm glad that oul' rascal Harris comes\nscrossacross. I like him!\n\nThe truth is Oscar deceived himself for a\nlong long time: it took years for him to come\n\u2019out\u2019 (AS THEY SAY THESE DAYS). We dont of course\nknow as much about him as we think; but I only\nhope I havent got him too wrong. The polished\nexterior(as you call it) only cracked towards\nthe end; the truth xxx came only then-not with Speranza.\n\nPerhaps I\u2019m rationalizing the whole\nbloody thing now. Anyway you\u2019ve made me think\nabout the play again. (It has been out of my\nmind now for some months)\n\nAgain many thanks. I know only too well\nhow hard it is to comment on another's work.\n\nIf the final verdict is 'agin' I'll\nstill be grateful. In any case I'll be glad\nto know what the response will be. The sooner\nthe better. With best wishes.\n\nJohn\nP.T.O\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:39","Nid":"1223"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd091","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1978 May 24th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd091","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Constance","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd091","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd091_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffP.S. Constance is an enigma: stupid in many\nways, a little of a bore; and be innocent ???\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:39","Nid":"1224"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd092","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1978 May 24th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd092","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Oxford","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd092","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd092_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff24 May 1978.\n\nDear Tom,Thank you very much for your letter of the 23\nMay which I\u2019ve just received.\nFirst,I'm most grateful to you for taking an\ninterest in this play. May I give you my comments\non yours as best I can? One always thinks one's\nbaby is perfect. It never is of course: and the\nmore defects it has the more strenuously one\ndefends it!\nI'm glad you think the play is highly actable and\nstageworthy. THat to me is a lot. And I\u2019m glad\nyou think it succeeds as a narative of the\nWilde story: and at that level. That may not\nbe enough: but it's enough to go on with.\nTHe title SPSRANZA'S BOY shouldnt be given\ntoo much weight ; ** it is an effort to get away\nfrom calling it OSCAR or something like that.\n(In fact Brian F-without reading the play-supplied\nthe title gratis! Possibly I shouldnt have\naccepted it and if it is really misleading **\n*********** then I'll have to think again.)\n\nABOUT SPERANZA. I was conscious of\nher formidable presence becoming less and less:\nI think that's the way it was with her son and\nherself. She SENSED the way he was going after\n((and at) Oxford. Hence her eagerness to get him\nemotionally off her hands...and into Constance's\narms. Speranza gave him to Constance: and\nOscar,being Speranza\u2019s boy,obeyed his mother.\nThen Constance took over-but only for a short\nwhile. Then Bosie and the rest....\n\nI couldnt DO a scene between Speranza\n\nand Oscar because I dont think there ever was\none: and I know I'd make a mess of it.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:39","Nid":"1225"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd093","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1978 May 24th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd093","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Scenes, Verdict","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd093","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd093_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff2\n\n0ld Sir William had quite an influence on Oscar;\na deep influence which I\u2019d hoped I\u2019d suggested.\nPerhaps I\u2019ve somehow failed. But I wanted to\nhave both parents in some dark genetic way\nresponsible for the mixed-up man that Oscar became.\n\nYes,the final third is a kit rushed\nI suppose. I thought that the prison yard scene\nmight slow down the tempo a bit. The trouble\nof course is the usual one of selection-the\nmost significant scenes HAVE to go in....And\nhere God knows how it works-or fails to work.\nOnly in rehearsal can one find out.\n\nAm glad that oul' rascal Harris comes\nscrossacross. I like him!\n\nThe truth is Oscar deceived himself for a\nlong long time: it took years for him to come\n\u2019out\u2019 (AS THEY SAY THESE DAYS). We dont of course\nknow as much about him as we think; but I only\nhope I havent got him too wrong. The polished\nexterior(as you call it) only cracked towards\nthe end; the truth xxx came only then-not with Speranza.\n\nPerhaps I\u2019m rationalizing the whole\nbloody thing now. Anyway you\u2019ve made me think\nabout the play again. (It has been out of my\nmind now for some months)\n\nAgain many thanks. I know only too well\nhow hard it is to comment on another's work.\n\nIf the final verdict is 'agin' I'll\nstill be grateful. In any case I'll be glad\nto know what the response will be. The sooner\nthe better. With best wishes.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:39","Nid":"1226"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd094","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1978 May 24th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd094","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Enigma","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd094","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd094_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffP.S. Constance is an enigma: stupid in many\nways, a little of a bore; and be innocent ???\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:39","Nid":"1227"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd095","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1977 Nov 17th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd095","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Missing, Lyric","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd095","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd095_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffTHE LYRIC PLAYERS THEATRE BELFAST\n\nRidgeway Street, Stranmillis Road, Belfast 9 Telephones:\n\nBox Office 660081\nAdministration 669660\n\nTRUSTEES\nCHARLES CARVILL JOHN HEWITT PATRICK HUGHES  COLM KELLY\nROGER MCHUGH\n\nMARY O\u2019MALLEY    P. PEARSE O\u2019MALLEY\n\nHON. DIRECTORS\nJOHN BOYD   DENIS JOHNSTON  THOMAS KINSELLA\n\nSECRETARY\nP. PEARSE O'MALLEY\n\nTREASURER\nPATRICK HUGHES\n\n17th November 1977\n\nProfessor E.R. Dodds,\n\nI saw the review of Missing Persons in the TLS,\nand thought it excellent. I am forwarding you\nmy own review for The Irish Press (it should be\npublished within the week or so). I hope\nI have done justice to your book. I was very glad\nindeed to have the chance of reviewing it.\n\nWith best wishes,\n\n(Jonn Boyd)\n\nTHE LYRIC PLAYERS THEATRE\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:39","Nid":"1228"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd096","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1977 Nov 17th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd096","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"The Irish Press","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd096","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd096_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff17th November 1977\n\nProfessor E. R. Dodds,\nCromwells house,\nOld Farston,\nOxford.\n\nDear Dodds,\n\nI saw the review of Missing Persons in the TLS,\nand thought it excellent. I am forwarding you\nmy own review for The Irish Press (it should be  was published\npublished within the week or so). I hope? Date.\nI have done justice to your book. I was very glad\nindeed to have the chance of reviewing it.\n\nWith best wishes,\n\n(Jonn Boyd)\n\nTHE LYRIC PLAYERS THEATRE\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:39","Nid":"1229"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd097","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1978 Jun 22nd","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd097","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Oxford, University","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd097","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd097_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffProfessor Dodds\n\n22nd June 1978\n\nProfessor E. R. Dodds,\nCromwell's house,\nOld Farston,\nOxford,\nENGLAND\n\nDear bodes,\n\nYes, they did include that silly shot of undergraduates\ndrinking champagne. They should, of course, have\nrespected your wishes as the clip was completely out\nof context. However, BBC Directors tend to think of\nthemselves as Moguls.\n\nIf you would like to read one of my plays here is\nTHE FLATS,  which i wrote, some years ago. It is my most\npopular play, but I don't think it my best. I haven't\nread it since 1 wrote it, so I don't now whether it\nmakes good reading. I do know that it makes good\ntheatre.\n\nWe are all very tired of the almost daily assassinations,\nbut what can we do! I envy you Oxford.\n\nBy the way, did you ever come across an old friend\nof mine called Jack Kells, who was Reader in Classics\nin London University.\n\nWith best wishes,\n\n(John Boyd)\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:39","Nid":"1230"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd098","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1979 Mar 20th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd098","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Judgement, Playwright","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd098","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd098_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffFrom: John Boyd, 28 Rosetta Avenue,\nBelfast 7.\n20th march 1979\n\nTo: The Editor,\nThe Sunday News\nCentury Newspapers Ltd.,\n51 Donegal Street Belfast 1\nFor Favour of Publication\n\nSir,\n\nTruly, 'A Sleep of Reason' would seem to have settled on your drama\nreviewer. In one of her two articles in your issue of 18th March she\nhas attributed to me two plays I did not write; but, for her information,\nI did write The street and The Flats.\n\nComment is free, but I sha11 make little comment on your reviewer's\njudgment of my current play at the Lyric Theatre, Facing North.\nHowever, I must correct further factual mistakes on her part. It is\nsurely obligatory for a reviewer to read a theatre programme. Your\nreviewer cannot have a done so in this instance: the time end place in\nFacing North are clearly stated there - as well as in the text. Also\nthe Black Mountain is outlined in Shirley Bork's admirable set, even to\nthe detail of the television mast (illuminated at night). Another\nfactual point: there are no Union leaders portrayed in this play:\nyour reviewer must have been asleep. Two factory workers, yes; but\nit is stated clearly that tne Union refused to participate in the\ndispute.\n\nYour reviewer commented on the acting, particularly that of Louis Rolston.\nMr. Rolston appears to be your reviewer\u2019s bete noire, if I may use\ncliche. Your reviewer's term 'cliched' is neither English or French.\nIn my view Mr. Rolston should not be given the lion's share of blame'\nfor this 'appallingly bad play'. That honour', I'm glad to say, rests\nwith me, the author. Mr, Rolston is one of the finest actors in Ireland,\nand for Carmel McQuaid to think otherwise is to display her ignorance of\nacting. Furthermore, to assert that, with one exception, r.Rolston did\nnot react to any incident is demonstrably untrue. Once again, your\nreviewer must have been enjoying her 'Sleep of Reason'\nShe professes ' to hate to send r. Holsten under the yoke again'. Likewise\nI hate to send M/s .McQuaid under my yoke for the first and (I hope) last\ntime.Her knowledge of drama is negligible; her presumption enormous;\nher taste abysmal. Manifestly her review displays both ignorance and\nilliteracy.\n\nMy distinguished predecessor, Bernard Shaw, taught me self- advertisement,\na lesson wiiich I digested, but have never as yet put into practice.\nShaw's own phrase was 'beating his own big drum'. I confess your\nreviewer impresses me in one aspect of her own difficult craft: I admit\nto being her inferior in flagellation.\n\nA playwright should of course welcome informed criticism, and I do; but\nthere are occasions when attention must be drawn to critical imcompetence.\nThis is one those occasions. I suggest that your readers come to the\nLyric Theatre and judge this production for themselves.\n\nYours etc.\n\n(John Boyd)\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:39","Nid":"1231"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd099","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd099","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"G.B. Shaw, North","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd099","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd099_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffDRAFT\n\nThe Editor,\nThe Sunday News\n\nFor favour of publication\n\nSir,\n\nTruly, 'A Sleep of Reason' would seem to have settled on your drama\nreviewer. In one of her two articles in your issue of 18th March she\nhas attributed to me two plays I did not write; but, for her information,\nI did write The street and The Flats.\n\nComment is free, thereforebut 1 sha11 make nolittle comment on your reviewer's\njudgment of my current play at the Lyric Theatre, Facing North.\nButHowever, I must correct/further factual mistakes on her part.\nIt is surely obligatory for a reviewer to read a theatre programme.\nYour reviewer mustn'tcannot have a done so in this instance: the time end\nplace in Facing North are clearly stated there - as well as\nbeinf statedin the text. Also the Black Mountain is clearly\noutlined in Shirley Bork's admirable set, even tothe detail of the\ntelevision mast (illuminated at night).\nAnother factual point:\nAgainthere are no Union leaders portrayed in this play:your\nreviewer must have been asleep. Two factory workers, yes; but\nit is stated clearly that tne Union refused to participate in the dispute.\n\nYour reviewer commented on the acting, particularly that of Louis\nRolston. Mr. Rolston appears to be your reviewer\u2019s bete noire,\n(sorry to use a French phrase, for obviously your reviewer doesn't\nunderstand either French or English, else she would not have coind such\na horror as 'cliched). Mr. Rolston, In myestimationview should not\nbe given the lion's share of thenblame'for this 'appallingly bad\nplay'. That honour', I'm glad to say, restswith me, the author.\nMr, Rolston is one of the finest actors in Ireland, and for Carmel\nMcQuaid to think otherwise is to display her ignorance of acting as\nwell as of the English language. Furthermore, to assert that, with\none exception, r.Rolston did not react to any dramticincident is\ndemonstrably untrue.\nOnce again, your reviewer must have been enjoying her 'Sleep of Reason'\nShe professes ' to hate havingto send r. Holsten under the yoke again'.\nVery well:LikewiseI hate to send herM/s .McQuaid under my yoke for the first and\n(l hope) thelast time.This Her review displays both ignorance and\nilleteracy. Your reviewr's knowledge of drama is negligible; her\npresumption enormous;her taste abysmal. \n\nMy distinguished predecessor, C.B.Bernard Shaw, taught me self- advertisement,\na lesson wiich I digested, but have never as yet put into practice.\nBernardShaw's own phrase was -  as your reviewer doubtless knows\n'beating his own big drum'.Unfortunately that phrase is ambigious\nin this contextI confess Your reviewer impresses me in one aspect of her difficult\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:39","Nid":"1232"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd100","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd100","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Playwright, Criticism","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd100","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd100_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffartcraft: I admit to being her inferior in flagellation.\n\nAnyA playwright of course should  welcome informed criticism, asand I do; but\nthere are occasions when attention must be drawn to critical imcompetence.\nThis is one those occasions.\nEnd\n\nYours etc.\n\n(John Boyd)\n28 Rosetta Avenue,\nBelfast 7\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:39","Nid":"1233"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd101","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1979 Oct 26th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd101","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Guardian, Titanic","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd101","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd101_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffGive SAE\nTITANIC\n\n26th October 1979\n\nMichael Stone,\nc/o The Guardian,\n119 Farringdon Road,\nLondon GCiR 3ER,\nEngland.\n\nDear Mr. Stone,\n\nIn The Guardian on Tuesday October 2nd you\nwrote a most interesting article on a new\nmusical THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC, which\nhad its world premiere at the Deutsche Oper\nBerlin.\n\nAs THE TITANIC was a Belfast built ship we\nhave have a particular interest in her fate.\nI was wondering could you give me some\ninformation about the musical: for instance,\nis there a libretto available yet? Where\nwould we write for further information which\nwe would require.\n\nI don't expect you know our theatre, but 1\nthink I can modestly say that we are the\nmost important theatre in the North of Ireland,\nand it is our policy to do a wide range of work.\n\nI hope you don't mind my writing to you, and would\nbe most grateful for your co-operation, I enclose\na SAE for reply.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(John Boyd)\nLiterary Advisor,\nTHE LYRIC PLAYERS THEATRE\n\nP.S. We recieve an annual subvention from the Arts\nCouncil, Norther Ireland,\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:39","Nid":"1234"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd102","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1980 Jul 31st","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd102","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Flats, Director","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd102","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd102_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff31st July i990\n\nLITA,\nSloveneska Literarna Agentura,\nCs.armady 31/111,\n894 20 BRATISLAVA CSSR,\nCZECHOSLOVAKIA.\n\nDear Sir,\n\nThank you for sending me your statement No. 403/CT-Kr. of 10th\nApril 1980, which reached me only last week. Thank you also\nfor the cheque for $420. With apologies for the delay in\nacknowledgment, for the reason given.\n\nI have a request to make:    would you be so kind as to put\nme in touch with the TV Director of my plat THE FLATS (BARAKY).\nI should like to to know from him/her what kind of response the\ntransmission received from viewers. 1 should also be most\ngrateful if the Director would kindly send me a script; this\nis merely for my records of translations of this play.\n\nI am very glad that your TV Service produced this play, and\nI hope the reaction has been a favourable one.\n\nWith best wishes,\n\n(John Boyd)\nTHE LYRIC PLAYERS THEATRE\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:39","Nid":"1235"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd103","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1981 Feb 3rd","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd103","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Flats, Popular","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd103","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd103_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffJIRI SVOBODA\n\n55 Northern Ireland.\n\n3rd February 1981\n\nMr. Jiri Svoboda,\nViSneva 6,\n800 CO Bratislava,\nSSSR.\n\nDear r. Svoboda,\n\nThank you very much tor your New Year's Card. I was glad to learn that\nTHE FLATS was popular. I enclose a copy of THE FARM, in addition to a\npublicity note. This play was very successful in Ireland. It will\nprobably oe published here during the summer. I send it to you because\nit has an interest for both urban and rural viewers. There is a more local\ndialect in it, but not very much. For example, the word 'window' is written\nas 'winda'; and 'never' as 'niver'. I don't think, however, a translator\nwould have too many difficulties, but if there are any problems I would be\npleased to interpret a list given to me.\n\nLike all my plays it has, I think, a strong social and political intent^\nAlthough I have said it is of interest to rural and urban viewers, the\nprincipal theme is about the struggle for the land. This theme is, of\ncourse, a universal one. In each of my plays i select an aspect of the\nsocial struggle, my intention being to illuminate it fron the point of\nview of a socialist playwright.\n\nI should be glad to have your opinion of THE FARM. If it is not suitable,\nperhaps I should give you a synopsis of some of my other plays, so that\nyou may have a better idea of the Kind of play that is most suitable.\n\nWith best wishes,\nYours sincerely,\n\n(John Boyd)\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:39","Nid":"1236"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd104","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1980 Oct 3rd","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd104","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Flats, Bratislava","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd104","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd104_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffSLOVENSKA LITERARNA AGENTURA\n\nTHE LYRIC PLAYERS THEATRE\nRidgeway Street\nStranmillis Road\nBelfast 9\n\nIRELAND\n\nDear Mr.Boyd,\n\nreferring to your letter in case of the screenplay of your\nwork THE FLATS we are sending you the Slovak translation of\nthe play. We would like to inform you as well that the direc-\ntor of this adaptation was Mr.Jirl Svoboda, Visneva 6, 800 00\nBratislava, CSSR.\n\nThanking you for your cooperation, we are\n\nYours sincerely,\nZuzana Havlikova\nChief theatr.dep.\n\nEmilia Obuchova\nvice-director\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:39","Nid":"1237"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd105","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1980 Dec 3rd","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd105","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Flats, Drama","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd105","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd105_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff3 Dec 1980\n\nDear Mr Jiri Svoboda,\nThank you very much for directing and adapting my play\nThe Flats. The production proved successful. I\nhave enclosed a booklet which I co-edited and which tells\nsomething of the theatre where my work is produced\n\nI wish I knew more about the drama in your country at the\npresent time. If you would like to have more information\nabout my own work I would be happy to tell you about it.\n\nAgain many thanks for your work.\nSincerely\nJohn Boyd\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Wednesday, August 17, 2016 - 14:08","Nid":"1238"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd106","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1980 Dec 3rd","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd106","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Slovack, Flats, Belfast","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd106","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd106_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff3 Dec 1980\n\nDear Ms Emila Obuchova,\nI am very greatful to you for sending me the Slovak\ntranslation of my play The Flats, and\nI must thank you for it. I hope the play was successful,\nand that all workers enjoyed it. I am also writing to\nMr.Jiri Svoboda.\nPlease accept this booklet which describes the work of the\ntheatre in Belfast where I work It shows photographs of\nsome of my other plays\nMany thanks for your co-operation\n\nSincerely\nJohn Boyd\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Wednesday, August 17, 2016 - 14:18","Nid":"1239"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd107","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1981 Aug 22nd","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd107","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Omagh, Theatre, Tyrone","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd107","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd107_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffAs from: 28 Rosetta Avenue, Belfast 7\n\n22nd August 1981\n\nDear Mrs, Reid,\n\nMany thanks for the invitation to participate\nin the Omagh Festival,\n\nI am looking forward to meeting the students\nand of course yourself.\n\nFurther to our telephone conversation, I\nsuggest coming to Omagh on Monday, 5th\nOctober as my first preference, though 1\ncould manage Wednesday 7th October,\n\nI should be glad if you would send me further\ndetails as to the venue and time.\n\nIf you require a title for my lecture, I\nsuggest 'WHY GO TO THE THEATRE?'. May I\nadd that I welcome discussion, questions\nand criticism after a not vermalformal lecture.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(John Boyd)\n\nMrs. Reid,\n28 Lisanelly Park,\nOmagh B779 7DE,\nCo. Tyrone\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:39","Nid":"1240"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd108","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1981 Aug 22nd","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd108","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Copyright, Oscar Wilde","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd108","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd108_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffAs from 28 Hosetta Avenue, Belfast 7,\n\nNorthern Ireland\n\n22nd August 1981\n\nDear Mrs.MacLiesh,\nSociety of Authors,\n84 Drayton Gardens,\nLondon SW10 9SD,\nEngland,\n\nDear Mrs. MacLiesh,\n\nThank you for your letter of l4th August,\nwhich cleared up for me the copyright\nposition so far as my play based on the\nlife of Oscar Wilde is concerned.\n\nYou must have gone to a lot of trouble on\nmy behalf, and I am most grateful.\n\nWith best wishes,\nYours sincerely,\n\n(John Boyd)\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:39","Nid":"1241"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd109","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd109","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Friendship","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd109","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd109_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffSept 1988\n\nDear Brian,\nI xxx think you'll be surprised\nbut I hope you won't mind to get a public\nletter from me, After all our long friendship has\nbeen xxxxxx largely epistolatary, for\nxxx geographical reasons I suppose, but\nalso xxx owing to my distaste for travel.\nAnyway that we don't meet more often xxxxxx\npersonally is my fault, not yours: xxx but\ncuriously enough I've recently come to the conclusion\nthat close friends - as you and I are xxxxxxx\n- should measure out their meetings because that way\nensures that friendship never goes stale. How's\nthat for special pleading on ratiocination on my part?\n\nFriendship is important to you, as it is to me, and\nnow that you've reached sixty I've calculated that we\nhave enjoyed at least thirty years of it. Extraordinary,\nisn't it, how quickly it has passed and\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Wednesday, August 17, 2016 - 14:55","Nid":"1280"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd110","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd110","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"McLaverty","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd110","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd110_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffShort story. As you know (for I've told you)\nhe regards The Foundry House as a masterpiece: a\nword he normally reserves for Chekhov and xxxxx\nxxxxxx\nMc Laverty is as fastidious a critic as he is a writer.\nBut this letter looks like turning into a eulogy of him\nas well as yourself, and I'm determined to avoid that.\nInstead I'll just say what comes into my head, as Stendhal\ndid when writing Henry Brulard  Have you read it?\nIf not do     You see what's happening, don't you?\nI'm still trying to educate you: for you once gave\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Wednesday, August 17, 2016 - 15:50","Nid":"1281"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd111","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd111","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"McLaverty","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd111","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd111_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffme a copy of your 'Selected Stories' and\ninscribed it\nI'm still not sure whether you were writing ironical;\nbut i'll give you the benefit of the doubt. We\nwere both teachers but whether good ones or not I\ndon't know. I think I was a reasonably good teacher\nfor a couple of years, that is, until staleness set in\nand I began to hate the imposed xxxxxx syllabus\nEnglish was badly taught in those days; but things are better\nnow that worthy living writers like yourself and Michael McLaverty\nare included in the syllabuses.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Wednesday, August 17, 2016 - 16:05","Nid":"1282"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd112","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd112","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Ais-Eiri, Belfast, Troubles","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd112","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd112_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff\nLETTER FROM BELFAST\n\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014-0O0\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n\nDear Larry,\n\nThank you for your letter last week asking me to\nwrite an article for Ais-Eiri. I've made two attempts\nalready and failed. Will this letter do instead?\nIf it's unsuitable, tear it up. But the fact is that\nwhat I have to say about living and writing in Belfast at\npresent is far too personal, too disjointed, too\nfragmentary, to be readily shaped into an article. An\narticle presupposes expertise, special insights, research,\nand I can lay claim to none of these. There have been\nmany millions of words uttered or written about the\n'troubles'; broadcasters, journalists, professors,\npoliticians, economists, historians, sociologists,\nauthors and 'authorities' of all sorts have had, or are\nhaving, their say, and such is the linguistic deluge that\nI'm drenched with it all and can take no more\n\nNow as news comes in\nof each neighbourly murder\nwe pine for ceremony,\ncustomary rhythms:\nthe temperate footsteps\nof a cortege, winding past\neach blinded home .....\n\n- 1 -\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:39","Nid":"1245"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd113","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd113","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Poetry, Heaney, Patrick Galvin","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd113","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd113_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff- 2 -\n\nThose lines are from a poem called Funeral Rites\nin Seamus Heaney's latest volume North. I quote them\nbecause there is more sense, insight, and solace, in\npoets than in public figures. Heaney's voice resonates\nmore than Paisley's and will continue to resonate when\nthat cleric is long forgotten. In the end, poetry -\nmemorable speech - endures. And we have many poets -\nHeaney, Hewitt, McFadden, Montague, Kinsella, Deane,\nSimmons, MongderLongley,FMaccFiacc, Muldoon, Mahon - and what they\nare telling us has the unpalatability of bitter truth.\n\nAgain to quote\n\nFrom the incubus of thy first coming\nAnd the immaculate conception of death\nWe pray deliverance.\nWe are entombed with love\nPhoenixed in righteousness\nSpare us, 0 Lord\nFrom the crucifixion by fire.\n\nThose lines (only part of Ephiphany in Belfast) are by\nPatrick Galvin, whom you met this summer. You remember\nthat wet afternoon? We talked for an hour or so in the\nLyric Theatre and looked across the Lagan, the river misted,\nand you commented on the beautiful site the theatre possesses.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:39","Nid":"1246"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd114","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd114","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Lyric Theatre, O'Casey, O'Malley","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd114","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd114_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff- 3 -\n\nYes, few theatres are so lucky. The Lyric must be one\nof the luckiest theatres in Europe. I wonder why I\nthought of 'luck' just now. Well, the Lyric has\nsurvived seven years on its present site and I think\nits survival is something of a miracle. It has been\nbombed (but luckily the blast went the wrong way) ; it\nhas been picketed by Paisleyites (luckily their protest\nwas of no avail); and it has often been threatened ...\n\nBut no more of this! The Lyric not only endures,\nit flourishes - the only professional theatre in the\nnorth. Tonight I am going to the opening of\nCock-a-doodle Dandy. Tomas MacAnna of the Abbey directing.\nThis O\u2019Casey play has never been performed in Ireland.\nImagine, an O\u2019Casey play written in 1947 and not\nproduced in his native countryhuntil now! We do\nhonour our dramatists, don\u2019t we?\n\nI wish that Pat and I had had enougn time that\nafternoon to tell you about the history of the Lyric.\nIt is a romantic story, and some day it will be told in\nfull. It was founded by Mary O\u2019Malley who comes from\nCork and her husband, Pearse O\u2019Malley, who comes from\nArmagh, and it has a line from Yeats\n\ninscribed on the granite lintel; A fitting inscription;\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:39","Nid":"1247"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd115","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd115","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Threshold, Ais-Eiri, Lyric","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd115","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd115_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff- 4-\n\nfor the theatre has specialised in poetic drama,\nparticularly Yeats. This isn't to say that non-poetic\ndrama is excluded from the repertoire - Williams, Millar,\nRopit, O\u2019Neill have all had notable productions.\n\nPat dalvin and I share the editorship of Threshold,\nthe twenty-sixth issue of which has just appeared.\n(I'll send you a copy). This magazine is one of the\noffshoots of the Lyric - others such as the Art Gallery\nare in temporary abeyance. By the way, it strikes me\nthat Ais-Siri and ourselves have a great deal in common,\nand could learn from each other. Let\u2019s do so. Send\nme the next issue please.\n\nI wish I'd known of the existence of An Claidheamh\nSoluis a year and a half ago when I was in New York\nfor a week! the loneliest week of my life. I knew\nnobody, spoke to nobody, and wandered the streets talking\nto myself. It was mid-March so I saw the parade on the\nseventeenth (the article by Dick Ryan in Ais-Biri brought\nit all back to me). I\u2019m sure Ryan is right when he\nsays that something has become corrupted in the way you\ncelebrate St. Patrick\u2019s day there, but all the same it\nmeant a good deal to one lonely visitor, though normally not\naddicted to parades of any kind. I find here at home\nthe Twelfth of July to be the saddest parade in the world.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:41","Nid":"1248"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd116","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd116","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Orangism, Yeats","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd116","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd116_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff- 5-\n(As I wrote that last sentence a bomb detonated\nsomewhere in the city and I left this back bedroom and\nlooked out of the front for smoke, but the morning is\ntoo misty and I can\u2019t see more than a hundred yards).\n\nYes, we love parades, don\u2019t we? The Orangemen\nparticularly. They\u2019re Irish in that respect at least,\nthough they\u2019re unaware of it. But I mustn\u2019t go on about\nOrangism, though one of my grandfathers was a Past Paster\nof his Lodge and had an oleograph of Disraeli, Earl of\nBeaconsfield, hanging in his kitchen. Who Disraeli\nwas my grandfather neither knew nor cared: he was that\nkind of a man, ignorant as the dawn, as Yeats says\nsomewhere.\n\n(I hear the siren of an ambulance, and again any\ncontinuity of thought I had is broken)\n\nYes, Yeats, We are all still in his shadow, poets\nespecially. As for his drama, his best - I\u2019m thinking\nof Purgatory and The Death of Cuchulain - are wonderful:\nand all of them have interest. Still, Irish drama\nhasn\u2019t gone Yeats\u2019s way. Perhaps it will in the future,\nwho can tell?\n\nI\u2019ve come almost to the end of this letter and told\nyou little about life as we live it. Is there a life\nbefore death? That's chalked up in Ballymurphy.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:41","Nid":"1249"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd117","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd117","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Heaney, Politics","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd117","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd117_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff- 6 -\n\n'Is there a life before death? That\u2019s chalked up\nin Ballymurphy, Competence with pain,\nCoherent miseries, a bite and sup,\nWe hug our little destiny again.'\n\nThat\u2019s another quote from Heaney. Is there a life\nbefore death? We\u2019re not too concerned about the other\njust now, though I heard Paisley yesterday on television\nsay that he wouldn\u2019t discuss or think about politics on\na Sunday. Isn\u2019t it a pity he thinks about politics at\nall? Is there a life before death? That\u2019s the question,\nas Joxer would say, that\u2019s the question.\n\nYes, that is the question, isn\u2019t it? In the\nmeantime we go on living this half-life in this murdering,\nmouldering city. Many are leaVing, of course, and nearly\nevery street has houses with For Sale notices, like tin\nflags.\n\nAnother Irish emigration is taking place, hundreds\nevery week flee from this run-down city that has not yet\nfound an identity. Will it ever?\n\nd That\u2019s one of the things I\u2019d like to discuss when we\nnext meet. Look after yourself.\n\nJohn\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:41","Nid":"1250"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd118","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd118","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Belfast, Ais-Eiri","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd118","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd118_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff\nLETTER FROM BELFAST\n\nDear Larry,\n\nThank you for your letter last\nweek asking me towrite an article for\nAis-Eiri. I've made two attempts already and\nfailed.xxxxx Will this letter do instead?\nIf it's unsuitable, tear it up. But the\nfact is that what I have to say about\nliving and writing in Belfast at present\nis far too personal, too disjointed, too\nfragmentary, to be readily shaped into an\narticle. xxx xxxx xxxxxAn article presupposes\nexpertise,xxx special insights,xxx research,\nand I can lay claim to none of these. There have\nbeen many millions of words uttered or written about the\n'troubles'; broadcasters, journalists,\nprofessors, politicians, economists, historians, sociologists,\nauthors and 'authorities' of all xxx sorts\nhave had, or are having, their say, and\nsuch is the xxxxx xxxlinguistic deluge thatI'm drenched\nxxxx xxx xxwith it all and can take no more\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:41","Nid":"1251"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd119","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd119","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Heaney, Poets","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd119","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd119_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff2\n\nNow as news comes in\nof each neighbourly murder\nwe pine for ceremony,\ncustomary rhythms:\nthe temperate footsteps\nof a cortege, winding past\neach blinded home ...\n\nThose lines are from a poem called\nFuneral Rites in Seamus Heaney's\nlatest volume North. I quote them\nbecause there is more sense, insight, and\nsolace, in xxpoets than in xxpublic\nfigures. Heaney's xxxxxvoice\nresonates more than Paisley's and will\ncontinue to resonate when that cleric is long forgotten. In the end, poetry -\nxxxxxxxxmemorable speech - endures.xxxxxxxx\nAnd we have many poets - Heaney, Hewitt,\nMcFadden, Montague, Kinsella, Deane,Simmon,\nLongley,Fiacc, Muldoon, Mahon - and\nxxxx xxxxxxx xxwhat they are\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:41","Nid":"1252"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd120","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd120","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Patrick Galvin, Lyric Theatre","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd120","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd120_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff3\n\ntelling us has the unpalatability of bitter\ntruth. Again to quote x xxxxx\n\nLord\nFrom the incubus of thy first coming\nAnd the immaculate conception of death\nWe pray deliverance.\nWe are entombed with love\nPhoenixed in righteousness\nSpare us, 0 Lord\nFrom the crucifixion by fire.\n\nThat fromThose lines (only part of Ephiphany in\nBelfast) are by Patrick Galvin,\nwhom you met this summer. You\nremember that wet afternoon? We\ntalked for an hour or so in the\nLyric Theatre and looked across\nthe Lagan, the xxx xxxxxx xxxxxxxriver misted,and\nyou commented on the beautiful site the theatre possesses. Yes,\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:41","Nid":"1253"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd121","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd121","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Lyric","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd121","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd121_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff4\n\nfew theatres are so lucky. The\nLyric x must be one of the luckiest theatres\nin Europe.xxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxx \nxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxx  I wonder why I\nxxx xxx xxxxxx thought of 'luck'\njust now. Well, the Lyric has survived\nseven years on its present site and\nI think its survival is something of a\nmiracle. It has been bombed (but\nluckily the blast went the wrong\nway) ;xxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxx  it has\nbeen picketed by Paisleyites (\nluckily their protest was of no\navail); and it has often been threatened ...\nBut no more of this! The\nLyric not only endures,\nit flourishes - the only professional\ntheatre in the north. Tonight\nI am going to the opening\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:41","Nid":"1254"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd122","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd122","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Lyric, O'Casey, O'Malley","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd122","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd122_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff5\n\nof Cock-a-doodle Dandy. Tomas\nMacAnna of the Abbey directing. This\nO\u2019Casey play has never been\nperformed in Ireland. Imagine,\nan O\u2019Casey play written in 1947\nand xxxxxnot produced in his\nnative countryhuntil now! We\ndo honour our greatdramatists,\ndon\u2019t we?\n\nI wish that Pat and I had itshad enougn\ntime that afternoon to tell you about\nthe history of the Lyric.It\nhasis a romantic story, and\nsome day it will be told in full.\nxxxxIt was founded by Mary\nO\u2019Malley who comes from\nCork and her husband, Pearse\nO\u2019Malley, who comes from\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:41","Nid":"1255"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd123","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd123","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Drama, Threshold","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd123","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd123_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff6\n\nArmagh voer the lintel these\nwords by Yeats are inscribed\n\n                               \nArmagh, xx xxxxxand it has a line\nfrom Yeats\ninscribed on the granite lintel; A\nfitting inscription; for the lyrictheatre has\nspecialised in poetic drama, particularly\nxx Yeats. This isn't to say that\nnon-poetic drama is excluded from the ?\nrepertoire - Williams, Millar,Ropit, O\u2019Neill\nhave all had notable productions.\n\nPat dalvin and I share the\neditorship of Threshold,the twenty-\nsixth issue of which has just appeared.\n(I'll send you a copy). This\nmagazine is one of the offshoots of\nthe Lyric - xxxxxothers such as\nthe Art Gallery are in temporary\nabeyance. By the way, it strikes me By\n[th way]that Ais-Siri and ourselves\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:41","Nid":"1256"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd124","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd124","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Ais-Eiri","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd124","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd124_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff7/\nhave a great deal in common, and\n xxxxxx xx xxxx could learn from each\nother. Let\u2019s do so. Send me the\nnext issue please.\n\nI wish I'd known of the\nexistence of An Claidheamh Soluis\na year and a half ago\nwhen I was in New York for a\nweek or so! the loneliest week\nof my life. xxxxxxI knew\nnobody, spoke to nobody, and wandered\nthe streets talking to myself.\nSaw the St Patricks Day Parade It\nwas mid-March so I saw the\nparade on the seventeenth (\nthe article by RDick Ryan\nin Ais-Biri brought it all back\nto me). I\u2019m sure he'sRyan\nis right when he says that\nsomething has become corrupted\nin the way you celebrate St\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:41","Nid":"1257"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd125","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd125","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Larne, Parades","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd125","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd125_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff8\nPatrick\u2019s day there, but all the same it\nmeant a good deal to one lonely\nvisitor, though  Im not one for parades at any time\nnormally not addicted\nto parades of any kind. I find here at\nhome the Twelfth of July to be the\nsaddest parade in the world.\n(As I wrote that last sentence a bomb detonated\nsomewhere in the city and I\nleft this back bedroom and looked\nout of the front for smoke, but\nthe morning istoo misty and\nI can\u2019t see more than a\nhundred yards).xxxx)\n\nYes, we love parades,\ndon\u2019t we? The Orangemen\nparticularly. They\u2019re Irish\nin that respect at least,\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:41","Nid":"1258"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd126","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd126","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Orangism, Yeats","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd126","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd126_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff9\nthough they\u2019re unaware of it.\nBut I mustn\u2019t go on about\nOrangism, though myone of\nmy grandfathers was a Past\nPasterof his Lodge and Ihad\nan oleograph of Disraeli, Earl\nof Beaconsfield, hanging in his\nkitchen.He Who Disraeli\nwas my grandfather heneither\nknew nor cared: he was\nthat kind of a man, ignorant\nas the dawn, as Yeats\nsays somewhere.  He never\nread a book in his lief\nand found the news paper hard\ngoing\n\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:41","Nid":"1259"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd127","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd127","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Drama, Yeats","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd127","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd127_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff10\n(I hear the siren of an\nambulance, and again whatany continuity\nof thought I had is broken)\nYes, Yeats, We are all still\nin his shadow, poets particularlyespecially.\nAs for his drama, his best -\nI\u2019m thinking of Purgatory and\nThe Death of Cuchulain - are\nwonderful: and all of them have\ninterest. Still, BestIrish drama\nhasn\u2019t gone Yeats\u2019s\nway. Perhaps it will soonin the\nfuture, who can tell?\n\nI\u2019ve come almost\nto the end of this letter and\nhavetoldyou little about\nlife as we live it. \n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:41","Nid":"1260"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd128","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd128","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Heaney, Politics","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd128","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd128_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff11\nIs there a life before death\n'Is there a life before death? That\u2019s chalkedoff up\nin Ballymurphy, Competence with pain,\nCoherent miseries, a bite and sup,\nWe hug our little destiny again.'\nThat\u2019s another quote from\nHeaney. Is there a life afterbefore\ndeath? We\u2019re not too concerned\nabout notthe other just now, though I\nheard Paisley yesterday on\ntelevision say that he wouldn\u2019t\ndiscuss or think about\npolitics on a Sunday. Isn\u2019t\nit a pity he thinks about\npolitics at all? Yes asIs there\na life before death? That\u2019s\nthe question, as Joxer would say,\nor Joxer would say\nthat\u2019s the question.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:41","Nid":"1261"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd129","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd129","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Identity","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd129","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd129_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff12\nYes, that is the question,\nisn\u2019t it? In the meantime\nwe go on living this half-life in this\nmurdering, mouldering city. Many are\nleaVing, of course,and nearly and nearly every\nstreet has houses with For\nSale notices, like tin flags.\n\nAnother Irish emigration is\ntaking place, hundreds every\nweek flee from this run-down\ncity that has not yet found\nits identity. Will it ever?\n\nThat\u2019s one of the things\nI\u2019d like to discuss when we\nnext meet. Look after yourself.\n\nJohn\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:41","Nid":"1262"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd130","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1989 Jan 1st","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd130","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Lille University","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd130","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd130_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff1 January 1989\n\nDear Lizzie,\nThank you very much for your lovely card -\nand your domestic news.\nI haven't been in London - except for one night\nabout 8 months on my way to Lille University\nin N.E. France to give a lecture on Sean O'Casey,\nand to examine a student for a degree - she'd\ntranslated one of my plays.\n\nI,ve been very busy this year and Elizabeth's\nhealth hasn't been good, and I've had some eye trouble\n(glaucoma) but it dosen't worry me as yet. have been\nwriting hard (and, luckily, with success!) but I won't\nbore you with this. I\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Wednesday, August 17, 2016 - 16:18","Nid":"1263"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd131","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd131","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Health","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd131","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd131_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff2\n\nphoned Elaine (D's sister) last week just to\nkeep in touch. She's had a hip operation\nand has recovered well, I'm glad to say.\n\nI expect you're overwhelmed with work (I mean\ntwo children can be a handful - more\ndifficult than writing plays!!!) but they constitute\nyour (and man's) immortality.\n\nMaybe we'll meet in 1989 - I'd love to hear your news\nand views - Alan's too of course - and the\nchildrens chatter.\n\nI keep well: life has changed for me (as you can well imagine):\nbut it takes its course, and I've certainly got health and\nvitality still, So - Good luck to you all for 1989 and  For\nyours\n\nJohn\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Wednesday, August 17, 2016 - 16:44","Nid":"1264"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd132","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1989 Nov 24th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd132","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Ren\u00e9","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd132","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd132_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffThe Lyric Players Theatre, Belfast\n\n55 RIDGEWAY STREET, STRANMILLIS ROAD, BELFAST 9, N. IRELAND\n\nTel: Box Office: (0232) 381081 \u2022 Administration (0232) 669660 & 669463\nArtistic Director: ROLAND JAQUARELLO    Administrator: MIKE BLAIR\n\n29 Nov 1989\n\nDear Rene\n\n YOur article is admirable and many thanks for it\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:41","Nid":"1265"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd133","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd133","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Irish Times, Joseph Hone","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd133","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd133_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff2\n\nBallymacash\nLisburn\nN.9\nFriday\n\nDear Bill:\nThanks for the note. Was curious to hear your news.\nSorry about Murlough. But ????????\n9 January, especially with Dylan.\nWell, I'm working hard, in all sorts of ways.\nHad a short elegy in last weeks Irish Times,\n+ it's been praised by Joseph Hone, Yeats's biographer,\nas the best poem in the I.T. for a long time. So I'm\nbeginning to fancy myself as a lyricist + have\nswollen head. Here's a copy - it might interest you.\n\n Death of an Old Woman\nShe'd no adventure in her life\nneither in body nor in mind,\nand after more than sixty years of wifehood,\nher body dry as rind,\nshe died in the sun in May.\n\nThroughout this long last winter she lay\npatiently, with neither hope nor fear;\nand nothing that we might say\nmeant anything to her seer-like\nface, white as the ray\nof light spearing the gay\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Wednesday, August 17, 2016 - 17:50","Nid":"1266"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd134","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd134","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Forrest Reid","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd134","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd134_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffcounterpane of the still bed\non which her worn body lay\nas lightly as when she came, a sleepless maid.\n\nHope you can decipher it - I mean the writing:\nthe thought is childs play. Don't be afraid\nto criticize it to hell.\n\nI'm writing a couple of other lyrics, but will\nkeep 'em for a month before publishing - or\nrather trying to publish - them.\nForrest Reid has read the part of my novel that's finished\nit, + was quite encouraging. But i know it's slight -\n+ my beginning.\nI'm after a future life in Queens, now!\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Thursday, August 18, 2016 - 11:59","Nid":"1267"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd135","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1978 Jan 11th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd135","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Lyric Theatre, Colleen Bawn, Uncle Vanya","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd135","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd135_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffLYRIC PLAYERS THEATRE,\n55, Ridgeway Street,\nBELFAST\n\n\"PRESS RELEASE\"\n\nTelephone 669660\n\nThe COLLEEN BAWN continues at the Lyric Theatre until the\n28th. January and is proving great family entertainment.\n\nThe set for the COLLEEN BAWN has been designed by Brian\nCollins from the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, and is based on an\nidea of what the play might have looked like in an old\nVictorian Theatre and it catches just the right atmosphere of\npantomime, melodrama, romance and comedy.\n\nRehearsals have started for UNCLE VANYA which will \"Open\"\nat the Lyric Theatre on Wednesday, 1st. February with \"Previews\"\non Monday, 30th January and Tuesday 31st. January.\n\nThe play, rightly regarded as one of the masterpieces of modern\ndrama, was written in the 1890's and was first performed by the\nMoscow Art Theatre in 1899. It is about country life in Russia\nin the late 19th century and portrays the conflicts of a middle-\nclass Russian family with great compassion and humour.\n\nUNCLE VANYA has never been done before at the Lyric and has\nnot been seen in Belfast since 1963.\n\nTONY DINNER\nARTISTIC DIRECTOR\n\nll/l/78\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:41","Nid":"1268"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd136","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd136","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Wilde, Play","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd136","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd136_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffFriday\n\nDear Pearse,\nHere's that Wilde play.\nHope you've time to read it during the week-\nend if poss. I've still a log of small textual changes.\n\nIf this copy is lost, Look for me in the Lagan!!!!!\n\nJohn Boyd\n\nP.S. Have a good weekend with old Oscar!\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Thursday, August 18, 2016 - 14:38","Nid":"1269"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd137","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd137","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Ballymacash, Lagan","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd137","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd137_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffBallymacash\nLisburn\nSat.\n\nDear Green\nThanks for return of MP, with text of ballads -\nwhich certainly adds intrest. Hope I didn't put\nyou to too much trouble. Lagan is in the\nhands of printers, and today I'm handing in your M.P.\n\nHope to see you soon, either in Dublin or at Ballymacash.\nAll good wishes\nSincerely\nJohn Boyd\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Thursday, August 18, 2016 - 13:05","Nid":"1270"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd138","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd138","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Drama, Translation","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd138","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd138_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff27/1/78 Tel Call to: The Flats\n\nMrs Waldnut  (on the phone)\nfrench translation\n\nDrama - translation\n\nring 15 minutes\n\n10 mins\n\nJohn Boyd, 28 Rosetta\nAv.\n\nCould you drop me a letter saying what\nshould be the normal  of ?\n9am \n\nShaftesbury Avenue\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Thursday, August 18, 2016 - 14:42","Nid":"1271"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd139","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1978 Jan 27th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd139","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Plays, French","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd139","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd139_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff27/1/78 Phoned Mrs Whodrnut (?)       J.Boyd\n\nPlays - French\n\n50%/50%\n\nEileen o'Casey,\nM. Dumay - Figure in the Night\n\n50%/50%         50%\n\nMr George Ashley\n\nMrs Woodnat\n\n10\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Thursday, August 18, 2016 - 14:11","Nid":"1272"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd140","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd140","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Sean O'Casey","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd140","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd140_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffTel. Call       Dumay file\n\nNo flights\n\u00a3520         26\n\n6 interested\n\n\u00a3240\nSean o'Casey\n\nFigoro in the Night\n\nMrs Doumay\nTallant\nDijion\n\nJohn Boyd\n28 Rosetta Ave\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Thursday, August 18, 2016 - 14:18","Nid":"1273"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd141","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd141","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"England, Bronte","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd141","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd141_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffx Now enjoying our last week-end\nin England before returning to Ireland. Having left\nDevon we went to Lincolnshire where we enjoyed a day\nseeing the cathedral, we then came north, to Yorshire,\nwhere we are at present. We are staying with our daughter\n+ visited the famous Bronte country.\nAgain many thanks for all your hospitality. And best wishes.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Thursday, August 18, 2016 - 14:31","Nid":"1274"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd142","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd142","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Royal Literary Fund, Bill Naughton","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd142","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd142_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffBBC etc.\ndate.\nmake it better \n\nTo\nThe Committee,\nRoyal Literary Fund.\n\nGentlemen,\n\nI have been asked by Mr Bill Naughton\nto write to you and state what I think\nregarding a proposal that he should receive\nhelp to carry on from the Royal Literary Fund.\n\nI will say at once that Mr Naughton is\nis'a xxsxxxxxxxx very good friend of mine. I\nhave known him for eight years, and I stay with\nhim when I\u2018m in London. You xxxxxxxxxwill have\nseen his published work, but his latest novel,\n\"The Second Age\", I consider to be the finest\nnovel of working class life ever written etc.\n\nSince xxxxxxxxxxx will be of advantage\nto you to know some facts of his financial\npositions,! feel I must say outright that duri\nng the last year I have twice lent him sums\nof \u00a325. In a way it has been an honour to do\nso, for I believe his work to be of singular\nimportance. I think he xxxxxxmight easily have\nhad help before ge tting himself in such\nstraits, for as one eminnent critic said: \"He\nwill be the Dickens of our day\".And I think\nit would be a sadlIoss to your literature if\nsuch a writer couldn't carry on.\n\nJohn Boyd, M.A.xxxDr Litt\nTalks Producer B.F.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:41","Nid":"1275"}},{"node":{"title":"Boyd143","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1977 Jun 23rd","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd143","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Threshold, Lyric, Flats","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd143","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd143_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff23rd June 1977\n\nDear Professor Frechet,\n\nI enclose the latest issue of Threshold, and hope that you will find\nits contents interesting\n\nMy latest play called The Street was produced in The Lyric Theatre\nthis Spring. I think I can say that it was successful both with\nreviewers and the public. Myself, I had reservations about the\nactual production - there were some cuts made in the text which were\nunfortunate.\n\nRecently I had a letter from Dan Pyper, a friend of mine whom, I\nunderstand is a very old friend of yours. he is in good form,\nand I think contemplating retirement, although I find it hard to\nthink of such an energetic person retiring.\n\nI wonder could you kindly give me some advice. I am anxious for\nThe Flats to be translated into French, and was wondering how I could\nget in touch with some translator, familiar with the Irish literary\nscene, possibly one of the translators of O'Casey's plays. Do you\nhappen to know any of them? Or are you yourself by any chance\ninterested in translating the play and have the time and inclination\nto do so? If so, I should be honoured.  I hope you don't mind my\nasking you for this advice. The truth is that once a play of mine\nis produced I tend to lose interest in it because I am already half\nway through the next one!Up too now only \"The Flats\" has been\npublished, and I have had three play performed since then. I\nhope, therefore, to have these three plays published reasonably soon\nas I find that publication is the best way to attract new productions\nan translations.\n\nWith best wishes to yourself and your wife,\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(John Boyd)\nTHE LYRIC PLAYERS THEATRE\n\nProfessor Rene Frechet,\n5 Villa d'Arcueil,\n92170 Vanves,\nParis, FRANCE\n","Type":"Text","Author":"John Boyd","Updated date":"Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:44","Nid":"1276"}}]}