19 JULY 1968, Page 30

The cancerous society

Sir: It is perhaps worth adding to Tibor Szamuely's excellent account of • Alexander Solzhenitsyn (12 July) the point that three extracts from Solzhenitsyn's novel The Cancer Ward were published in the Times Literary Supplement on 11 April.

Nicolas Walter 4 Vane Close, Harrow, Middlesex