Noel know-all
Sir: I am sorry that my revered colleague John Simpson (Noel Coward was a spy, too', 17/24 December) thinks that until now `Noel Coward appears never to have been associated publicly with espionage'. He could try about a chapter-and-a-half of the first Coward biography, A Talent to Amuse, which I wrote in 1965-8 and published in 1969: alternatively, he could try almost half- a-dozen biographies, memoirs etc. of Cow- ard that have been published since. Then again he could try the Coward Diaries, which I edited with Graham Payn in 1983. Then again, I could just shut up and assume that nobody checks biographies for details of a life. On the other hand, that still leaves the Coward autobiographies . . .
Sheridan Morley
5 Admiral Square, Chelsea Harbour, London SW10
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