Shuckburgh and James
Sir: Mr Rhodes James's acquaintances now seem to be "earing things' (Frank Johnson, Diary, 29 November). There has been no `acrimonious private correspondence' be- tween him and me and I hope there never will be. Two letters have passed between us. Before I had any idea that he was to review my book I wrote to congratulate him on his. He replied saying that he had reviewed my Diaries for the Sunday Tele- graph 'in a kindly manner' and explaining very frankly why he had not asked to see them when writing his biography of Eden. They would naturally have been available to him, as they were to any other reputable historian who asked to see them. The question whether Eden knew that I kept a diary was not touched upon in the corres- pondence. Of course he did.
Evelyn Shuckburgh
High Wood House, Watlington, Oxford
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