Dear Sir: I believe that you receive a great deal of mail of this kind, but having just re-read Sharpe’s Escape, I felt compelled to personally thank you for giving us Richard Sharpe and connecting him to the 95th Rifles and your own creation of the Prince of Wales’ Own Volunteers. Sometimes it takes a fictional character to remind us of how best to live our own real lives. Sharpe is flawed, profane and impatient; in sum, real. But also trustworthy, honest to his men and himself, and loyal to those deserving. Of course, those who betray him have a real problem, and Sharpe’s idea of turning the other cheek seems to be the other fellow’s over an open fire; but I won’t quibble. He’s a soldier. Sharpe is an ideal, and one which at least I sorely need. Thank you again for this vast world in which I love to vacation time and again. “First on the field and last off-The 95th!” John H. Dixon