Sia,—Since it appears that there are some admirers of C.
P. Snow among your readers, might I slip in a small discordant tinkle amid the clashing of the bells and say how grateful some of my colleagues in adult education and I feel that you should have made available to us the text of Dr. Leavis's Rich- mond Lecture?
We don't, of course, share Dame Edith's celebrity, for can we claim to be literary critics of the stature of Lord Boothby. Nevertheless, we do have a con- cern with the future of civilisation, in our mild way, and we think that Dr. Leavis's strictures on C. P. Snow and on the society that takes him so seriously are entirely justified, self-evident and life-enhancing. Moreover, we find it curious that you should think it proper to give so much space to the sort of stuff that passes for 'criticism' at the hands of Mr. Gerhardi et al.
G. N. A. GUINNESS
59 The Close, Norwich
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