21 APRIL 1967, Page 32

The Spectator

Sir: Some of your contemporaries appear from recent comments to be considerably more worried about the future of the SPECTATOR than you are, judging from your recent note on the topic.

Miy I say how pleased I was to read your note which will give great encouragement to those, like myself, who value the paper very highly and are extremely appreciative of what you have done for it since you took over. I know that very many of your readers, including myself, have complete confidence in the future of the paper.

It does seem, however, that you need a bigger circulation; but what paper does not? One means by which the older generation of your readers can assist at very slight cost is to have the paper sent to their grown-up sons and daughters who don't already read it. I make the suggestion that any who chance to read this letter and who qualify should do so at once; as I have already done.