Lord Cranfield as he wasn't Sir : If Mr Robin
Bousfield Wished to be rude (Letters, 11 October), he succeeded very poliiel} But as G. K. Chesterton said, there are no un- interesting things, only uninterested people. 'What people are like' is the source of all bio- graphy, for which every public man must be prepared; and it is more interesting than fiction to some readers.
Mr Bousfield's statements do not hold water: in the first place, it is a question of opinion, not of fact, whether Some People or Harold Nicolson's remarkable Diary is worth twice the other. (This prompts the question whether 'a work of art' is preferable to the expres- sion of human nature. Pope thought that the proper study of mankind is man.) Secondly, if ephemeral letters in the weekly press were worth as much as permanent publications cost- ing two or three pounds per volume, it would
-be strange indeed.
Lilian von Verses
The Old Post House, Deddington, Oxford
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