" KNOLE AND THE SACKVILLES "
• ■• Sot,—Your reviewer in your issue of December 26th has most courteously included some remarks on the reprint of my book, Knole and the Sackvilles. I ant duly grateful to him for thus acknowledging what is, after all, not a new book ; but at the same time I feel that in fairness to my family I should correct a no doubt inadvertent implication. He states that Knole has " passed into the possession of the National Trust, and access to it is open to all the world." This rather suggests that Knole was closed to the public before its acquisition by the Trust, whereas, on the contrary, the 'house was open three days every week (except during the war years); exactly as it is under the present regime.—
I have the honour to be, Sir, yours, &c.,
Sissinghurst Castle, Kent. V. SACKVILLE-WEST.
Previous page
