26 JULY 1969, Page 25

Swing of the censor

Sir: I was glad to see that Count Polacki de Montalk is still remembered (Anthony Bur- gess, 21 June; Shaun Mandy, Letters 19 July). But I feel that these gentlemen do him some injustice. He did not wholly spend his time in Soho pubs, but was a well-known habitué of the British Museum Reading Room being, so far as I could see, one of the first to arrive and one of the last to leave. Incidentally, though the Count claimed to be the rightful King of Poland, newspaper reports of the court proceedings against him on obscenity charges described him as a citizen of New Zealand.