25 SEPTEMBER 2004, Page 35

Hemingway's hero

From Simon Counauld Sir: Tristan Garel-Jones got a bit confused in the course of his touching tribute to Carmen Ordohez (Bullfighting, 18 September). While very few would dispute that her father Antonio was the greatest torero of his generation, he was not the model for Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon. That book was published in 1932, the year Antonio Ordotlez was born. Lord Garel-Jones may have been thinking of Carmen's grandfather, Cayetano, who was thought to be the model for the bullfighter in Hemingway's novel The Sun Also Rises.

Simon Courtauld

Pewsey, Wiltshire