13 AUGUST 1965, page 12

Edwardian Life

SIR, — In the days of my childhood (the weather must have been sunnier in the gay 'twenties) straw hats were quite often worn by men in Lancashire and also by schoolgirls as a......

The Man Who Was Shakespeare

SIR,—in Martin Seymour-Smith's review of the latest-published book on Marlowe (Spectator, August 6), he calumniously refers to my book The Murder of the Man Who , Was......

Dylan Thomas

sm,—You may wish to correct for your readers two errors in the June 25 review of The Days of Dylan Thomas. Your reviewer states that American writers on Dylan Thomas......

Mozart And Bach

SIR, — I did not believe, say or suggest that Frederick the Great and Mozart ever met. I only alluded to the instructions given by the King to his Minister in Vienna, to suggest......

Letters To The Editor

From: Robin Farquharson, Sir Denis Brogan, Professor William Read, Forrest G. Smith, Doris Bulleis-Povey, G. A. S. Dibley, Calvin Hoffman, Tristan Jones. The Anti-Whites SIR, —......

Joseph Kennedy

SIR, — What kind of reasoning is it that gives a man credit for a 'strong and enduring religious faith' aside from what it has meant in his life (lain Macleod, June 25)?......

Verwoerd And After

By ARNOLD BEICHMAN W HAT more can be said about South Africa that has not been said? And what new resolutions can be drawn up denouncing what has already been denounced so many......

Sir, — Pace Mr. Waugh, 1896 Wasn't Edwardian; Moreover,...

style of the River quota- tion both strongly suggest a feminine hand. 21 Blacker Place, Edinburgh 9 G. A. S. DIBLEY......