Observer, Oct 1, 1972. p.48

‘From Sir with Fury’

‘ER Braithwaite, the Guyanese author who wrote To Sir, with Love was telling us how disillusioned he felt the first time he met fellow Black writer JB at a party. He says he’d expected a huge, cool tough guy like the persona in Baldwin’s books. “For a start, he only came up to here…”