SIR.—As far as I'm concerned, both Mr. Evelyn Waugh and
Mr. Guy Chapman can hold whatever opinions they choose about Frank Harris. What they are not entitled to do without protest is to mis- represent Bernard Shaw's opinion on the point. Un- able to grasp this simple distinction Mr. Chapman now asks us to consider the idea that Shaw's tribute If Harris was a form of 'hush-money,' designed to pievent the outrageous Harris from making out- rageous charges against Shaw.
This strikes me as a gratuitous insult to Shaw. And why must Mr. Chapman burden your pages with such drivel? His ingenious theory has one flaw, obvious enough to have occurred to Mr. Chapman with all the learning and resources of the Savile Club at his dis- posal. Frank Harris was dead when Bernard Shaw wrote his tribute.—Yours faithfully,
MICHAEL FOOT Tribune, 222 The Strand, WC2
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