10 AUGUST 1962, page 15

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Festival Finance By DAVID CAIRNS A COUNTRY whose idea of the place of Art in its life is to write letters to the Times, subscribe to appeals signed .by the most sonorous names......

St Rt , —i Am Preparing A Biography Of Charles Peace, Th E B

e i ph , °rear and murderer, whose name, even after Years, is still well known in many areas in e_ North and among Cockney Londoners. I will be grateful if you will permit me,......

The True Emulsion

SM,—In Elizabeth David's article 'The True Emul- 44 2 ° n' (August 3), she states that mayonnaise is an 'F c luired taste. Whatever justifiable praise can be g i ven for the......

What About The Envelopes?

SIR,—If one may judge by subsequent correspond- ence and references elsewhere, my light-hearted notes in your July 20 issue on the sale of manuscripts to American universities......

Distributing Profits

SIR,—As a reader who has recently returned to the Spectator, I was distressed to find that Nicholas Davenport's thinking has hardly progressed at all during my absence (see The......