12 JUNE 1971, Page 25

Sir: I thank Auberon Waugh for his generous review of

my book, Plumridge (5 June), and of my personal appearance. I am very sorry that I am so plain. I must point out, however, that the coat I wear in the dustjacket photograph is not plastic but leather, and very nice, Philip Norman The Sunday Times, Thomson House, 200 Gray's Inn Road, Lon- don wcl