WHAT MR. HOGG ART SAID
SIR,—Starbuck has unfortunately been misled in preparing his 'Spectator's Notebook' for your issue of July 6. As chairman of the conference concerned I must point out, in fairness to Mr. Hoggart, that the account in 'Spectator's Notebook' is inaccurate and misleading both as to what Mr. Hoggart himself said and as to the questions and comments that were put to him. Mr. Hoggart was questioned closely (a gathering of adult education tutors is notoriously dif- ficult to satisfy), and questioned particularly closely by the sociologists among us, who do not like mere literary men to trespass on their preserves. At our urgent request; however, he spoke for much longer than had originally been intended, and he was heard throughout with the closest attention and interest.
MAURICE BRUCE
Department of Extia-Mural Studies. Sheffield University, Sheffield 10
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