HUMANITARIAN SLAVER?

Edward Rice, in reviewing “Sir Francis Drake” by John Sugden (April 21), omits credit for his statement: “Drake stands out as a unique example of a humanitarian.”

Drake and his kinsman, Sir John Hawkins, both acknowledged slavers and pirates, were made English knights; but Drake was a “humanitarian” and Hawkins merely “notorious”? In whose opinion?

LAURA CANNOM, LOS ANGELES