4 NOVEMBER 1978, Page 17

Colin Macinnes

Sir: I have been asked by the literary executors of the late Colin MacInnes to write his biography, and I wonder if I might, through your columns, appeal to anyone who knew him at any time of his life — and has information about him, letters from him or whatever — to get in touch with me.

. I would particularly appreciate any Information about his earlier years — not so much about his childhood in Australia, as the times in the Thirties when he worked for an English company in Belgium and studied at the Euston Road School of Art in London, and the war years when he was an NCO (in intelligence) in Gibraltar, England and latterly in Germany following the victorious advance on Berlin. All information will be treated confidentially, letters etc returned promptly. Tony Gould 10 Lincoln Road, London N2