Sir - Although I am not very keen on his style of classic adaptation, I must defend Andrew Davies against Tony Augarde's accusation (Weekend, March 30) of modernising Jane Austen's text by inserting "and baseball" into a passage from Northanger Abbey.
This is indeed what Austen wrote, and is used as an example of the word "baseball" by the Oxford English Dictionary.
Sue Jenkins, Thame
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