SIR,—Mr. Curran has one initial advantage in writing about new
housing estates—he knows nothing about them. I make no claim to know the lot, but I know something concerning them.
My letter, so far from being 'an irrelevant trumpet blast,' was intended as that bugle call, known to everybody, under a French disguise, as 'Awake!' Mr. Curran still slumbers, endur- ing his nightmares about life on new housing estates. His replies to my comments on his article reconcile me to the consoling thought that he not only did not write it but has had the good sense not to read it.
Mr. Curran has read my letter, however, but has not replied to my invitation to come and study a new housing estate. I have read Mr. Curran on the politics of new housing estates. The picture is about as real as an old-fashioned panorama. Let me repeat my invitation before he starts on 'Cooking in New Housing Estates,' or the wearing of suede shoes among their inhabitants.—Yours faithfully, JOHN O'LEARY Librarian Borough of Dagenham
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