Henry Moore
Sir: I read John Read's tribute to Henry Moore (6 September) with some pleasure until I turned the page and came to the following paragraph: 'It took a lot to fluster Henry Moore. Only perhaps a visit from Lord and Lady Clark could cause a panic around the studios . the miner's son with an OM still feeling the need to do something special for the aristocracy!'
This is utter nonsense and a travesty of the truth. My father was no more an aristocrat than Henry Moore, his family merely made their money a few genera- tions earlier. Henry thought of both my parents as his dearest friends and knew quite well that if 'IC' thought in those terms at all, he would regard Henry himself as far the greater aristocrat.
Colette Clark
34 Anhalt Road, London SW11
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