A MERRY CHRISTMAS Mr Trower!” 46. On 18 January 1989 Mr Trower wrote to Bane, having previously telephoned him to acknowledge receipt of his letter of 19 December: “Following my telephone call you will realise that I safely received your letter of 19th December. I thought however, in view of its contents, that there should be a record on the file acknowledging it.” Mr Trower went on to say that he looked forward to seeing Bane in the not too distant future. 47. On 30 January Mr Trower wrote again, enclosing a note of his firm’s fees in the sum of £400 plus VAT covering the preparation and drafting of the 1988 Will, advice on the creation of a company to advance Bane’s ideals, and “subsequent correspondence with you about sundry matters”. 48. On 2 May 1989 Bane sent a donation of £3,000 to the Conservative Party to mark the tenth Anniversary of Mrs Thatcher’s premiership. In his covering letter to Lieutenant-Colonel Barton at the Conservative Board of Finance, he said that the cheque was “to honour the greatest World’s LEADER of our time”. However, he then enclosed a photocopy of a further piece of “dysjournalism” by Bernard Levin, and the letter degenerated into a semi-intelligible anti-Semitic rant. On the following day, 3 May, Bane wrote to Mr Trower inviting him to lunch in the second half of May. He enclosed three articles, two of them evidently by Bernard Levin. There is a strong anti-Semitic undercurrent to this letter too, although it is mercifully much shorter than the letter to Lieutenant-Colonel Barton. 49. On 5 May Mr Trower replied, saying that he would “re-read with interest” the two articles by Bernard Levin which he had already read in his morning paper, and confirming their lunch date for 1 June at Simpsons in the Strand. 50. The lunch was evidently an excellent one. In his letter of thanks dated 2 June 1989 Mr Trower described it as “a Lucullan feast”. He said he would telephone shortly to arrange a date when Bane could lunch with him in Lincoln’s Inn and meet one or two of his partners. He then continued: “May I now turn to your affairs. Your temporary will contains a munificent benefaction to the Conservative Party. Far be it from me to suggest that you should alter that. But it was a “stop gap” will pending consideration of the creation of something which, while supportive of the Conservative Party, had rather wider application. I refer you to my letter of 22 June 1988. If on reflection you feel a bequest to the Conservative Party meets your desire for the disposal of your fortune, then there is nothing more to be done. But the Conservative Party’s policies are adaptable and changing. Thirty years ago its policies were very different from what they are today. Would you have