1 NOVEMBER 1968, Page 27

Lord Cranfield as he wasn't

Sir : I apologise to Miss von Versen (Letters, 25 October) if I appeared rude. One point I must make; she seems to imply that Some People is fiction. She may be right but the author's note at the beginning of the book is a master- piece if teasing:

'Many of the following sketches are purely imaginary. Such truths as they may contain are only half-truths. H.N.'

Robin Botofield

Hazel House, Goose Green, Hadlow, Kea