about commas, Leonard Russell,
literary editor of the Sunday Times
in the late 1950s, once told me. No
wonder, given some of the editing
I’d been subjected to. Anyway, in
1950 John Lehmann didn’t employ
a specialist editor to deal with
cookery, so my original typescript
(years later John told me it was the
untidiest ever submitted to him)
was left more or less as I had
handed it over. Even the recipe for
‘Turkish stuffing for a whole roast
sheep’ which had so beguiled the
late Julia Strachey, John
Lehmann’s reader at the time, that,
she told me later, she had finally
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