17 NOVEMBER 1984, page 24

Gordon

Sir: Since one of your corresponden t ; raised the subject recently (Letters, 1 " October), we have heard nothing further of the plight of poor General Gordon . How is the old......

Emasculated Wilde

Sir: I have just learned, with distress, from Jeffrey Bernard's Low life column on 13 October, that Oscar Wilde's statue in Pere Lachaise Cemetery remains emasculated. While I......

Isle Of Greece

Sir: My family is grateful to you for your mention of our ill-treatment by the erratic Socialist government of Greece (Portrait of the Week, 10 November). But we are not only......

Superior Culture

Sir: In your article 'Power to Miss CherrY' (Politics, 10 November), you state that 'we in the West think of ourselves as wiser than Africans.' I believe rather that we think......

Neglected Thinker

Sir: I am researching the life of . 1 %„ W ., i ; Dunne, author of An Experiment WI' Time (1924). I would be very interested t ° , hear from anyone who knew or worked with this......

Letters

Severe geology Sir: In dealing with Jimmy Reid's letter (3 November), could I point out that: 1. The decision to close Walton Colliery in Yorkshire was taken after all stages of......

Unnatural?

Sir: A reader of the Spectator for many years, I was appalled at the intemperate and shoddy attack on homosexuals by Colin Welch (Centrepiece, 10 November). I am not aware of......