The Mosleys

Sir: Mr. A. Forbes (30 April) fairly quoted my condemnation of the mass murder of Jews in Germany as `one of the most execrable crimes in all history', but asks the strange......

Byron's Birthplace

Sir: Readers of Richard West's article (23 April) on the by-elections at Ashfield and Grimsby may be interested to know that Lord Byron was not the most interesting person born......

John Evelyn's Library

Sir: John Evelyn's Library was the product of a gunpowder fortune. His father, uncle and grandfather manufactured that product from before the Armada to about the time of the......

Fleet St.

Sir: It was quite like old times to read Richard West's realistic and perceptive assessment of the Fleet Street situation ia the Spectator (5 April). As one who has recently......

One-sided

Sir: Timothy Raison's interesting article (9 April) seems to beg one question – how, if we return to collective bargaining, to mak e . it real and not so hopelessly one-sided,......

Literally So

Sir: Mr Christopher Booker, in his Notebook (23 April), points out, right l Y enough, that 'archetype' has an 'abso lutely precise' meaning. So has 'literal- 1 Y' , yet in the......

Lion Of Judah

Sir: I have been asked by a relative of the late Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia undertake research with a view to possibl e publication of a book on the Imperial Fara ily of......