27 JANUARY 1973, Page 26

Sir: Thank you so much for putting us in the

picture on the subject of Andy Warhol's trashiness (Notebook, January 20); such scraps of second-hand information are particularly valuable now that Mr McWhirter has shielded us from the possibility of having to make up our minds on the qualities of Warhol (and David Bailey's film) for ourselves.

Incidentally the Appeal Court judges, in deciding what secondhand information they should rely