12 MARCH 1988, page 25

Excellent Lever

Sir: Auberon Waugh (Another voice, 27 February) says Australia's Aborigines 'never advanced beyond the earliest Stone Age, never discovered fulcrum and lever, let alone the......

Mean Donations

Sir: It seems likely from your Diary of 30 January that the respondents to your ques- tionnaire respecting the habits etc of your readers are, judging by their quaffing of malt......

Narrow Window

Sir: I am sorry that Alastair Forbes (Let- ters, 5 March) is so upset by my article about his friend Gianni Agnelli, which he considers 'an ignorant, fabulising diatribe',......

Checking Department

Sir: How splendid that One cannot make a Wodehousian mistake in The Spectator Without being courteously corrected. As Christopher Fildes's culpable reference checker I ask the......

Cornish In Africa

Sir: I am glad that Charles Moore (`To the Cape and back', 5 March) recognises that Baragwaneth is a Cornish name, and the great hospital of that name in Johannes - burg is, I......

Companionable Walton

Sir: I am appalled by Mr Fallowell's review of Susana Walton's book (20 February). It seems to me that he has chosen this occasion to make an attack upon Walton, rather than......

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