WALKING TOURS
Sir,-"Sundowner" has said some kind and probably undeserved things about my recent travel books, and I feel under some obligation, with your permission, to thank him for the friendly manner in which he has pointed out a serious mis-statement of fact. I had strangely Stated that the books had been written with the hope of inducing those able to
do so to travel imaginatively. Actually that expressed hope appears to have been realised. "Sundowner," however, knows that my purpose was very different. Referring to me he says, "he really sat down to write" for "readers who share his ‘Early Heaven and happy views.’"" "Sundowner," in fact, is a super~ magician; so far surpassing those who merely draw rabbits out of hats, he has drawn from my head ideas and purposes that I felt sure were never there. Not content with that, by the use of the word "his" in the quotation-what« ever it may mean-he appears to do me the unmerited honour of fathering upon me words that I have no recollection of having even seen before. It would be interesting to know what "Sun« downer" really meant when he sat down to let his readers into the secret of what I really meant to write.
A. H.
REED
(Dunedin).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 403, 14 March 1947, Page 5
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212WALKING TOURS New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 403, 14 March 1947, Page 5
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