7 SEPTEMBER 1985, Page 21

From Patricia Gale

Sir: I liked Peregrine Worsthorne's account of Vanessa Lawson (24 August) who was as wonderful as he says, and I was touched by his nostalgia about the many wonderful sights he saw in my home in Wivenhoe, which, however, is not such a thing of the past as he suggests but has simply been transferred to Wales. On the other hand I do wish he hadn't hidden me under the umbrella title 'the George Gales'. I am not a feminist but I'm entirely distinctive as well as being, now, divorced and I really do wish to emphasise that I am as I always have been.

Patricia Gale

B1 Albany, Piccadilly, London W1