Sunday, March 02, 2008

On Peter Fleming's Rook Rifle

"Mr. Money-Coutts writes from Berkhamsted and can perhaps be forgiven for his ignorance of the armaments market in North China"

Thank you, Patrick Wright, for mining the archives of the Times for this exceptional correspondence...

4 comments:

Steve Bodio said...

Wonderful!-- and of course Mr Fleming and his defenders are absolutely right.

Though I would also love for someone to give me a .256 Mannlicher...

dr. hypercube said...

Mr. Bullock's nod to rabbit starvation up north was the icing on the cake for me. Great stuff.

Chas S. Clifton said...

Note to self: "John Hornby, ‘Hermit of the Arctic'" -- must research.

Chas S. Clifton said...

Snow man:
John Hornby in the Barren lands
on order through interlibrary loan.

thanks