I’ll give you an example of what happened with the European Rococo exhibition in Munich in 1958. The editor of the catalogue could not speak or read English, but I had to send my catalogue entries to him in English and I also had to translate all the other entries which had been sent in various languages to him, and had been translated into German.

I had to translate the German into English, so that something that had a French entry was at the risk of mistranslation into German, and then at the risk of rather mistranslation into English by me. So you actually had to go back to basic to check that you’re not compounding errors. My misfortune was that he couldn’t edit my entries until he had had them translated into German, which was done. And then they lost the original English papers from me. And instead of telephoning and saying, can you send us a duplicate, because I had a duplicate, they translated them into German. With errors... with absolutely ghastly errors. So there is a language problem when you are dealing with an exhibition of that kind.