24 SEPTEMBER 1954, Page 13

BARON CORVO

SIR,—I have for some years been compiling a detailed bibliography of the writings of Frederick William Rolfe.

Fr. Rolfe, or Baron Corvo, or Nicholas Crabbe, or Frederick Austin, or Frank English, as at various times he called himself, was a more prolific writer than is generally supposed. Besides his books he contributed stories, poems, articles and letters to a wide range of periodicals—both anonymously and

under innumerable noms de plume—over a period of thirty years. If any reader who

possesses unpublished material relating in any way to Rolfe's writings, or has knowledge of any of his contributions to periodicals, will get in touch with me, I should be extremely

jrateful.—Yours faithfully, CECIL WOOLF

24 Victoria Square, S.W.I