21 OCTOBER 1955, Page 18

SIR,-1 returned on Sunday from a three weeks' visit to

Italy and have only just seen the corre- spondence about Melinda Maclean in your journal.

I now hasten to reaffirm the statement I made in July, 1952, declaring that I' had spent the afternoon and evening of July 15 with Melinda Maclean, and that I was willing to swear that the interview described in the Daily Express on the following day did not in fact take place. This I am still willing to do.— Yours faithfully,

MARY M. DEVITT

As from Tenth House, OAted, Surrey