[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I wrote the letter
you published last week under the handicap of eyes blurred by drops administered by an oculist, and the ensuing headache and fog prevented me from reading over the typescript. I must apologize for various errors which were allowed to stand in sentences that should have read :
" Mr. Parsons has come to the defence of Mr. Eliot's essay, but he has not paid it the compliment of remembering it. Mr. Eliot himself announces that it is the purpose of this essay to affirm the importance of Baudelaire's prose works.' "
a nor can I see what I said about Mr. Coward and Mr. Archer that indicates anything at all about my critical discrimination."
" I saw that in America any dull young man who could put up a show of scholarship and express a hunger for authority and tradition, could claim to be under the leadership of Professors Babbitt and More and Mr. Eliot," and so on.
I apologize for these tedious corrections.—I am, Sir, &c., REBECCA WEST.
15 Orchard Court, Portman Square, W. 1.
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