Letter: De mortuis nihil nisi bonum

Sir: Could you help me? I am preparing an article on the achievements of Keith Botsford and would appreciate any humiliating hearsays or bitter speculations about his life. The style will be much the same as his own article on James Hunt, though, unlike Mr Botsford, I prefer to bad-mouth the living.

Yours faithfully,

ROBERT CULVINOR

Frome, Somerset

17 June