Mean donations
Sir: It seems likely from your Diary of 30 January that the respondents to your ques- tionnaire respecting the habits etc of your readers are, judging by their quaffing of malt whisky, champagne or château- bottled wine in at least moderately high- income groups. Have not then at least some of them another characteristic, to wit, niggardliness. £50 was the amount quoted by Charles Moore as the figure given by at least some of them as their total donation to charity in a year.
Perhaps we cannot persuade ourselves to part with a tenth of our income to charity, but is not £50 very little from a well-heeled bunch that can afford to go to the opera and spend money on original art?
J. R. Evans
Eastchurch Farm, Hittisleigh, Exeter
The editor writes: £50 was the figure for a single donation, not for accumulated giving in the course of a year.
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