17 OCTOBER 1958, Page 22

IN A JAR UNDER FOYLES

SIR,—The Alan Brien-Edmund Crispin correspafl' dente in the Spectator has involved this bookshop in a rather odd way. Since Mr. Brien wrote that : 'He [Mr. Crispin] must stop behaving as if he had discovered the whole thing like the Dead Sea Scrolls in a jar under the baseme,et of Foyles' we have had several requests for corms of the Dead Sea Scrolls in jars. ' Until we discovered that it began in the Spectator I'm afraid that we had no idea what our customer' were talking about. And now that we do know the source of it all, we are still somewhat perplexed.— Yours faithfully,

BEN PERRIC

Advertising Manager

W. & G. Foyle Ltd., 119-125 Charing Cross Road, WC2