Bringing Lindsay to book
From Tom Sutcliffe Sir: Paul Sutton, editor of Lindsay Anderson’s Diaries, replied to my review by suggesting I had invented a letter from Lindsay to him (Letters, 18/25 December). He well knows it was included in an early typescript (which I saw) but cut by Methuen before publication.
Getting a selection of Lindsay’s diary entries and letters into print was not such a great ‘coup’. It was foolhardy to strike a deal with Methuen behind the backs of the Lindsay Anderson Memorial Foundation, the organisation which introduced Sutton to the Anderson archive at Stirling University. That meant, quite apart from the issue of trust, that Lindsay’s friends in the Foundation were not eager to help make up for Mr Sutton’s lack of appropriate knowledge.
Tom Sutcliffe
London SW16
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