18 JULY 1970, Page 27

A new map of the Indies

Sir: Henry Tube (27 June) is not quite correct when he states that, apart from the instances he cites, no work by Gabriel Garcia Marquez has appeared in this country before publication of his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. An important story of his ap- peared in our special short story issue in March of this year.

Alan Ross Editor, London Magazine, 30 Thurloe Place, London sw7