LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The Life of Bonar Law
SIR,-1 cannot but be obliged to Janus for the complimentary references which he makes to me in his Notebook, but I must take issue with him on one point. If I have not written my father's biography the fault is not Lord Beaverbrook's.
It is true that Lord Beaverbrook is my father's literary executor. It is true that we have not always seen eye to eye on all political questions (although we have. nearly always done so). And it is true, I think, that 1 have sometimes felt it an inconvenience that my father's papers should be under another's roof than my own (but the degree of inconvenience has been slight indeed). Let me say, however, that Lord Beaverbrook has never denied me access to the papers of which he is custodian, nor has he ever withheld from me the riches of his own well-stored memory. And he has constantly urged me to discharge the task which was set me.
May I add, too, that it is with my willing concurrence that the papers are being transferred to the University of New Brunswick where they will be housed in the new library wing which Lord Beaverbrook has given to the university as a memorial to Bonar Law in the land of his birth ? I hope that it will not be long before a biography of my father is undertaken, and I do not think that the fact that the papers are in New Brunswick will add materially to the difficulties of his biographer. The papers have been carefully indexed and can easily be made available, either in their original form or in photostatic copy, to the interested
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