Jean Le Roy was Edith Sitwell's literary agent in the magazine department of Pearn, Pollinger and Higham. Edith Sitwell, writing from her brother Osbert's castle near Florence, mentions an incident which occurred nine years earlier in April 1949. Accounts vary but it would appear that, after months of battle in print over Edith's literary reputation between the poet Roy Campbell and Geoffrey Grigson in the Poetry Review, the situation finally came to a head with a confrontation at the BBC. Edith insists that Campbell gave Grigson 'a couple of good ones' ignoring his cries for mercy, but she highly exaggerated the incident and it is unlikely they came to blows. What is evident is that Campbell did assault Stephen Spender at a poetry reading that same day, again supposedly in defence of Edith's work. The incident obviously preoccupied Edith for she mentions it in her letters many years after the event, elaborating the story each time and glorying in the fact that Campbell acted as her champion. She was probably reminded of the incident after his sudden death in a car crash in 1957, which shocked her deeply.