12 SEPTEMBER 1968, Page 26

Sir: I regret that, in my review of Harold Nicolson,

Diaries and Letters 1945-62 (6 Sep- tember), I made a factual error. I wrote that Nicolson typed out his diary 'in revised and publishable form.' It has now been pointed out to me that the passage in which Nicolson men- tions this revision (p. 332) refers only to that part of the diary which was published in his book Journey to Java.