2 DECEMBER 1932, Page 6

I see it stated that a selection of Mr. Asquith's

letters to Mrs. Harrisson is to be published. It is, but not, I believe' , till 1934. When the letters do see the light they should reveal a good deal of their writer's personality. In his Memories and Reflections, where a good many fragments of the letters are quoted, Mr. Asquith speaks of " a new friendship to which I have ever since been greatly indebted " with " a young couple, Roland and Hilda Harrisson," who settled near him in Wiltshire in 1915. Major Harrisson was killed in 1917, but the friendship with his widow continued and ripened, and the letters, covering a period of ten years, are described by their writer as the nearest approach to a diary he ever kept, apart from his letters to his wife.

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