To the Editor:

I want to apologize for at least two inadvertent errors in my piece on Harold Rosenberg [“Remembering Harold Rosenberg,” November 1978]. Harold’s past was a spider web, and I’m sure a few others will crop up as I hear from mutual friends and acquaintances.

1. The “congenital game leg” that I mentioned was not that at all. It was the result of osteomyelitis (a bone-marrow disease) which began when he was twenty-one and was to plague him the rest of his life.

I asked him about his leg more than once, but could never pin down the source. He was as reticent about his leg as he was about so many personal things, although so voluble about ideas and observations. My apologies for misrepresenting this remarkable man in any way, apart from personal interpretation—where everything is subjective.

2. I seem to have exaggerated the length of time Harold and Dwight Macdonald were neighbors in the same building. It was closer to thirteen years than “almost a quarter of a century.” My thanks to the several people who have contacted me.

Seymour Krim
New York City