10 MAY 1975, page 6

Welcome, But...

From Dr John A. H. Wylie Sir: It was good to see gracing your columns after so long an absence, an offering in characteristic vein from my friend, neighbour and good-natured......

Country Houses

From the Marquess of Tavistock Sir: I would like to make a few points regarding Mr Raymond Boyle's letter in The Spectator (April 19). How anyone can have the ignorance to......

Male And Female

From Professor T. E. Rowell Sir: Linklater is mistaken. The steroid hormones are common not only to all mammals but to all vertebrates, and so must have evolved at least......

Library Economies

From Lady Antonia Fraser and Francis King Sir: The decision by Bucks County Libraries to save money by ceasing to buy new fiction and children's books is a double blow to......

Exorcism

Sir: Beneath the comments and strictures passed upon those involved in the tragic case at Barnsley, both by the media and by the church authorities, has been the underlying......

Press Freedom

Sir: In his comments on the NUJ annual delegate meeting (May 3) Bill Grundy applauds Ken Morgan's abuse of me but declines to answer my argument — or even to say what I was......

British Leyland

Sir: In its editorial on the British Leyland debacle The Spectator tells us, 'the case for some control of institutional funds is overwhelming'. I wonder if that is so. It is......

Faith Evidence

Sir: Nicolas Walter (April 19), in reply to Martin Sullivan (April 5), declares his unbelief in the resurrection of Jesus Christ and indeed of His ever having existed; he bases......