A N  O P E N  L E T T E R  
 
TO 
 
L O R D  B E AV E R B R O O K  
 
 
 
 
To the Right Honourable Lord Beaverbrook : 
 
My Lord, 
I make this appeal to you as a Peer of the Realm 
—an appointed guardian of its public honour—
and as proprietor of the Sunday Express, to 
redress a most grave and indefensible injury 
committed by that paper against the social honour, 
life, and work of an English gentleman and man 
of letters, and against the personal virtue of 
three very noble women who have renounced 
their private ambitions in order to help in his 
work. 
 
I.  The case is as follows :— 
Between November 1922 and March 1923, 
the Sunday Express published a series of sensa-
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