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The Complete Henry Root Letters

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H. Rochester Sneath - the fictional headmaster of the fictional British public school Selhurst, created by Humphry Berkeley.

He later remembered that "sex, whether in company or not, has been the only department in life in which I have demanded from anyone taking part the very highest standards of seriousness. His experiences there formed the basis of his first novel, Both the Ladies and the Gentlemen (1975).com, who sent a letter to all US senators, posing as a child and asking them for their favourite joke. a b c "William Donaldson – Womanising satirist and novelist who squandered several fortunes on wild living". The letters were published as The Henry Root Letters and The Further Letters of Henry Root and a compilation volume, The Complete Henry Root Letters. Edna Welthorpe was a prudish middle-aged housewife who was strongly opposed to her creator Joe Orton's plays. Supposedly a wet fish merchant from Fulham, he is an avatar for a lot of the to-the-right-of-Attila-the-Hun, Thatcher-supporting, mildly racist, entitled, liberal-baiting mansplaining that was de rigeur and absolutely unchallenged in the Spectator/Private Eye yachts and casinos circles that Donaldson frequented.

Root first came to my attention more years ago than I care to admit when I was in Denmark and saw the televised version of Root into Europe. Back in 1979, people with too much time on their hands could send actual letters to leading politicians, judges and other luminaries of light entertainment, and expect a reply.

The letters aren’t really dated, with the exception of certain BBC television stars and the one to the South African Ambassador. This time around Root has written an appalling soap opera about the decline of moral standards in modern Britain and put together a new volume crammed with letters to famous actors, directors and other worthies up and down the land.

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