Letter
Not on the payroll
22 October 1992
Edward Pearce’s generous review of our Beaverbrook biography (LRB, 22 October) says wrongly that one of us (Davie) was ‘snatched up’ by Beaverbrook for the Evening Standard. This trivial-sounding slip is of some importance to us, because our main qualification for tackling Beaverbrook was that, unlike virtually everyone else who had written about him at any length, neither of us had ever been...
