19 APRIL 1945, Page 14

ROGER FRY AND SIR OSBERT SITWELL

SIR,—Colonel Bonamy Dobree in an otherwise most generous review of my book, Left Hand, Right Hand, in your issue of April 13th, makes one inference against which I must protest. The fact that I consider some

• of Roger Fry's early paintings to have been influenced by Alma Tadema, and that I point out his errors in prognostication, where the monetary value of a Sargent is concerned, does not justify the reviewer, surely, in saying that I seem " to have entertained a deep dislike " of Fry? On the contrary, I liked him, as anyone who knew him must like him, and was proud to

be among his friends.—Yours very truly, OSBERT SITWELL.