31 JULY 2004, Page 25

Grand existence

From Julian Le Grand Sir: I'm sorry to disappoint Frank Johnson (Shared opinion, 10 July) and your correspondent (Letters, 24 July), but I am not entirely fictional, nor did I expire from that dastardly attack in the library. Proof can be found in The Spectator of 13 March this year.

Julian Le Grand

Policy Directorate, 10 Downing Street, London SW I