5 FEBRUARY 1954, Page 13

SIR,—We should not have dared to write to you, but

we see that you have published a letter from Little Mr. Tomk ins about Dr. Edith Sitwell, so perhaps we can ask a ques- tion.

Is all Dr. Sitwell's poetry, as well as the bit in which our names are given, bits copied from dead writers ?—Yours anxiously, PERIDOT AND BERYL

Sumburgh, Shiphatn, Somerset