Dear Mr Cornwell, I have enjoyed your Peninsular War series and find Sharpe and Harper to be excellent characters. I also appreciate reading books that are not rife with spelling and grammatical errors. The illiteracy or laziness of some authors drives me to distraction and spoils many otherwise good stories. However, I do have one bone to pick with you. In Sharpe’s Tiger (chronologically the beginning of the series) you describe Sharpe’s flogging in one set of circumstances and then in Sharpe’s Company, you describe it (through Sharpe’s dialogue) in rather different circumstances. Was he strapped to a tripod of Seargents’ halbreds or to a wagon wheel? Now I understand that you wrote the books out of chronological sequence and it may be difficult to keep all the details of all the books in mind over almost 20 years of real time, but some of us are just pedantic enough to be bothered by this revision of (fictional) history. Nevertheless, to paraphrase Chief Dan George’s character in the movie “The Outlaw Josie Wales”, I shall endeavour to persevere (with my enjoyment of your novels). Best regards, Robert W. Hester