31 JULY 1953, Page 19

Norman Douglas

SIR,—In Miss Sylva Norman's most friendly review of my book, Norman Douglas: A Pictorial Record, she comments on the fact that I give Norman Douglas's birthplace as Austria, whereas The Time., obituary said he was born in Scotland. Norman Douglas's biblio- grapher, Mr. Cecil Woolf, has sent me the following extract from a letter written by the Keeper of the Town Archives, Bregenz: "George Norman Douglas was born, according to the Birth Registration of the Evangelical Community of Bregenz, page 24, No. 71, at eleven o'clock p.m. on `8th December, 1868, at 'Falkenhorst,' Thuringia."