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Sir-A word of congratulation for your masterly footnotes to letters, for your inimitable skill in confuting Ccorrespondents who incautiously believe they have caught you napping, is long overdue. Recent examples are your footnotes to R. L. Andrews and J. R. Jennings. Hardly daring to hope that I ‘shall be more successful than others, i somewhat hesitantly draw your attention to a footnote to my letter headed as above, in which your previous reference to Squire Dale as Lily Dale’s father remains unanswered. However, should you really be bowled out this time you will be in good (or to my mind in bad) company, for to cite an example in the radio adaptation, the villain of ‘tthe tale, Adolphus Crosbie, appears to have been gratuitously "addpted" out of existence and replaced by an entirely new character, one "Rick" Crosbie. I have no criticism to offer as to the entertainment value of the production, but think the extent to which adaptation has been carried must be a disappointment to Trollopians.
A. H.
REED
(Dunedin).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 515, 6 May 1949, Page 5
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174TROLLOPE ADAPTED New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 515, 6 May 1949, Page 5
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