30 OCTOBER 2004, Page 42

Author, not editor

From Christopher Howse Sir: In his very welcome review (Books, 23 October) Sir Peregrine Worsthorne omitted to mention the title of my book, which is How We Saw It. I am its author not, as Sir Peregrine said, its editor, but I was indeed grateful to include the foreword by Lord Deedes and the retrospective by Sir John Keegan.

Nor is it a 'history of the paper' as Sir Peregrine wrote. That is why I said in the introduction, `This is not a history of the Daily Telegraph.' If it had been, Sir Peregrine would certainly have found plenty of references to himself in the index.

Christopher Howse

London SW1