17 SEPTEMBER 1954, Page 14

' JOHN O'LONDON'S

SIR,- I bought number twelve of John O'London's Weekly when I was in my teens. Since then I have not missed a number. It became part of my life, and the men who wrote it became my friends, although they never knew me. I feel now as though some- one I knew well had been killed in an accident. One would have thought that any publisher not absolutely in the bread line would have been proud to keep this gem from sinking under the masses of tripe, and worse than tripe, one sees piled on the bookstalls. I am grateful to Strix for putting into print what I can only say to a limited circle.—Yours faithfully,