PTO TEE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR:1 '
SIR,—With reference • to "C. B.'s '' well-informed letter in Your issue of the Spectator of August °nab:. Rhodes's subsidy to the official Liberals, I think it may interest. you to know that the facts he refers to were published by me last October under the very thinnest veil' of fiction in 'my novel, "Lord Linlithgow." In that book the letters referring to a certain- 25,000 are 'in many parts tolerably close-. to the originals, and I am naturally much' gratified by the' endorse- ment, now given by one under whose-initials-I fancy I recog- nise the personality of a well-known and able journallit, of what seemed at the time a scurrilous and 'unjustifiable piece of mere fiction. For although, on being challenged, I publicly declared that my imagination had not been equal to the invention of so amazing a story, it was contradicted flatly by many, who should have known it was true. • I was, rein em rightly, even rebuked mildly by one of yOur own staff.—I
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