15 SEPTEMBER 1984, page 26

The Worm Turns

Sir: 'He and I have one thing in common -- boring.' • I. Shiels, 5 Willoughby Drive. Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear......

Tate Acquisition

Sir: No less intriguing than the Serpenti ne Gallery's sardine-tin in the bathtub is one of the Tate's 'new acquisitions', proudly displayed in Room 44. It is a small glass case......

Maidenly Man

Sir: Am I right in believing I have located the earliest use of the noun 'gay' to denote a homosexualist? In Timothie Kendall 's Flowres of Epigrammes (1577) I find the......

Letters

Leading authority Sir: I am bowled over by Peter Levi's generosity of spirit (Books, 18 August): he shows justice of mind, so rare a quality in a critic, or anybody. (One can......

True Friend

Sir: One would assume from Murray Sayle's article (Books, 28 July) that it was intended to be a review of the two hooks recently published on Bomber Harris, one by Dudley Saward......