THE ENGLISH-BRITISH PITFALL
sin,—rt would be instructive to learn the process of reasoning by which your contributor, Mr. Wilson Harris, in writing•" . . . it was left to his son George V to be the first essentially British sovereign since the Smarts (or perhaps since they, after all, were Scottish, since Elizabeth)" prefers the claim of Elizibeth who was English and Queen of England to James I who was Scotch and King of Great Britain.
I trust or course that I may be right in attributing to reason that which may be only superb arrogance.—Yours faithfully,
68 Kintore Road, Glasgow, S. 3. A. FINDLAY. [Mr. Wilson Harris writes : I have little defence. It was a case of good intentions frustrated by carelessness. I wrote " English " in the first instance, and then, remembering the' susceptibilities of Scottish readers, changed it hastily to " British," omitting—very reprehensibly—to notice how the change affected the words in brackets.]
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