consider Mr. Evelyn Waugh's article in your issue of July
8 the worst example of ill- manners to be granted space in your columns since the Sitwell correspondence. I cannot let this extravaganza from a writer of fiction go unanswered. I regard the personal remarks about Lord Noel-Buxton as boorish and the assessment of his character as false. I have known Lord Noel-Buxton for over twenty years (rather than for a matter of moments) and always found him modest, scrupulous to a fault, and so kindly that he is completely abashed by unfriendliness. 'Predatory' is the last epithet that may be properly applied to him.
The agency which Mr. Waugh chooses to patronise may like to add the following to its records: Lord Noel-Buxton is conscientious in his attendance at the House of Lords; an accomplished broadcaster; a sensitive student of history, prepared to test his theories about Roman fords at considerable discomfort and even risk; and a lover of literature, who num- bers among his friends many poets, including Mr. Masefield himself.—Yours faithfully, ; ANTHONY CARLISLE
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