23 NOVEMBER 1951, Page 17

"After All " SIR,—In Sir Evelyn Wrench's most generous review of

my book, After All, there has crept a typing or printing error which makes me say that " for five years 1 had not slept between blankets." What I wrote was sheets.

To the cow-boy of that time, even when sleeping under a roof, sheets were regarded as an absurd feminine superfluity. But he could not have survived at all without blankets. Had I been without them for five years, I should not now, nearing eighty, be making this little correction.

Northey Island, Maldon, Essex.