D. H. LAWRENCE
SIR,—I take due note of Mr. Rowse's piece of cor- rective information. I wrote in my article: 'a corn- tribution the editor seems to have commissioned under a misapprehension, for Mr. Rowse never met Lawrence, and manifestly has no qualifications for saying anything enlightening of his own about him.' Instead of 'commissioned' I ought, I see, to have written 'included.'
However, while the implicit criticism of the editor of the 'composite biography' was perhaps less severe than it now becomes, I cannot see that I did anyone an injustice. And we have now, I reflect, Mr. Rowse's wit to admire. These flashes of the brilliance of All Souls—further lights on a famed civilisation—are worth having.—Yours faithfully,
F. R. LEAVIS Downing College, Cambridge
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