Brendan Bracken

Sir, – I like to bask in the reflected glory of the achievements of our Irish diaspora, and do so in the case of Brendan Bracken, founder of that fine organ of business, the Financial Times. But crediting him with the foundation of the Economist ("Financial Times founder's letters to his mother for auction", December 7th) is a claim too far. The Economist was born in 1843; Bracken in 1901. – Yours, etc,

JIM DORGAN,

Blackrock, Co Dublin.