3 JANUARY 2004, Page 24

Wrong Knox

From Digby Anderson

Sir: When I wrote about the Epiphany (`Go to work on Christmas Day', 13/20 December) I quoted a certain 'Knox'. I meant Ronald Knox. Somewhere in the haste of the debased modern Christmas, he became John. I would never quote John Knox on religion, though on one other subject — the ladies —he was not only sound but prescient.

Digby Anderson

Woburn Sands, Buckinghamshire