7 SEPTEMBER 1996, Page 26

Unlikely scenario

Sir: Can we really be expected to believe (Books, 31 August) that Philip Hensher, of all people, would have preferred to sit in the kitchen with the much-maligned ser- vants rather than be upstairs gossiping about them and others with Virginia Woolf herself?

Frederick Barker

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