21 FEBRUARY 1976, Page 19

F. E. Smith

Sir: I am writing, with the cooperation of his family, a new biography of F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead. May I beg an inch of your space to request any of your readers who have any previously unpublished information or recollections of him that they would be willing to pass on to me, verbally or in writing, to get in touch with me?

John Campbell Department of History, University of Edinburgh