Wolfson College, Oxford OX2 2UD

Dear Andrew,

Thank you for your letter of 15 November. I am sorry you were dumbfounded by my letter. I can't think why - unless, as I feared, you had come to believe that I had somehow turned against you and/or your book, in which case I am glad that I wrote. It was perhaps the greatest frustration of not being able to talk to you during the legal proceedings that I could do nothing to avert the risk that you might draw some such conclusion.

In answer to your question: I could remember no such communication, but memory is fallible (as was brought home to me by the court case), and so I consulted my correspondence file for the period you mention. I discovered one letter, of which I attach a copy. I imagine this letter comes as no surprise to you, but I hope it may help in some way.

Yours, Henry Hardy

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