23 DECEMBER 1955, Page 19

CIVIC FREEDOM

SIR,—I am writing a book on freedom in its civic aspects and would like to enlist the help of any readers with direct experience of the infringement of liberty by councils, civil servants and other branches of the modern State. Details of the successful or unsuccessful struggles of the victims of the many minor Crichel Downs and Pilgrim Cases less publi- cised than the Dines Green Estate of Worcester and the Braintree Hedges are of special value. All material, clippings, etc., would be returned if desired after use.—Yours faithfully, LAWRENCE D. HILLS

20 Convent Lane, Braintree, Essex