2 FEBRUARY 2008, Page 26

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Sir: I was reminded by Martin Vander Weyer’s footnote of Hugh Massingberd’s huge appetite and of his extraordinary generosity (Any other business, 26 January). Hugh and I trundled round the UK giving his compilation from the diaries of James Lees-Milne — ‘Ancestral Voices’ — in country houses. We were often put up for a single night. Hugh always left £20 on the dressing table with a note of thanks.

Moray Watson

London SW13