16 MARCH 1985, page 22

Heavy Breathers

Sir: Although I see that the purpose of last week's Home Life piece was to send 1.IP believers in spirits, I wish Alice Thomas Ellis had told us what was producing the odd......

Gone, All Gone

Sir: Your readers of today might be in- terested in a piece of history that almost got away — the signatures of some of your famous readers who subscribed to the Spectator......

Bible Study

Sir: Auberon Waugh also has New Testa- ment authority for detecting the hand . of God in the nasty diseases from which practising homosexuals suffer (Another voice, 23......

Letters

Rotten Apples Sir: Richard Body's breathtaking advocacy of British withdrawal from the Atlantic Alliance (3 March) needs a follow-up in your columns. Soviet Russia, we are told,......

Wizard Prangs

Sir: It must surely be churlish to complain about a review which at least in passing describes one's work as 'excellent'. But A.N. Wilson's account (Books, 2 March) of my The......

Alastair Forbes

Sir: I am very sorry that my tribute to Alastair Forbes in your issue of 23 Febru- ary should have contained an untrue state- ment capable of causing him considerable......