Willard Wolfe writes: May I make use of your pages to protest against the tissue of misrepresentations and outright fabrications that forms the substance of E. P. Thompson’s attack on my book, From Radicalism to Socialism, in nlr 99 (September—October 1976), p. 85? Of course, I have no right to complain of any judgement that Thompson may pass on my book, but his resort to fabricated ‘quotations’ and his assertions that I wrote the very opposite of what I really wrote must surely be corrected, both for the sake of basic intellectual honesty and because the argument of my book, when correctly stated, may be of real interest to readers of nlr.