Sir, - Referring to the books section in the Weekend Supplement of September 21st, and particularly to the excellent review of the new Virginia Woolf biography by Maeve Binchy, I would like to bring to your attention an error regarding Katherine Mansfield's death, which is wrongly attributed to suicide. Katherine Mansfield was suffering for a long time from tuberculosis and had entered the institute run by Gurdjieff near Fontainebleau in 1922, hoping to regain spiritual and physical strength, but died there in January 1923.
She was buried in the Protestant cemetery at Avon on January 12th, 1923. Her grave slab is engraved with Shakespeare's words, which she chose for the title page of Bliss:
But I tell you, my Lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.
Yours, etc.,
Ambassador of Greece,
Dublin.