17 MARCH 1990, Page 32

Patience rewarded

Sir: I was delighted to have my recent book, I Have Sind: Charles Napier in India, reviewed in The Spectator (3 March) but it did not take me 17 years to write, as your reviewer imagines, it took 17 years to get published — rather a different matter. Priscilla Napier

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