18 AUGUST 1984, page 18

What Ho!

Sir: Sir John Summerson supports the removal in 1969 of Sir John Soane's restric- tion on the professional status of the curator of his museum, and presumably he also welcomed......

Taki

Sir: As a fairly regular reader of your magazine I hope you will not take excep- tion if I register a strong protest to the presence of the work of Taki in your pages; this has,......

Letters

Not confounded Sir: Your Note 'Neuberger confounded' (4 August) suggested that I was confounded. I was not. I was on holiday, and the authors of the 'cruel rebuff you attribute......

Consistency

Sir: As a young farmworker of 17 I spent some hard-earned cash on several issues of your magazine in an effort to understand the politics and ideas of conservatism. I tried to......

Left Tcithe Nation

Sir: Sir John Summerson is quite right (Letters, 11 August) to observe that Sir John Soane intended his house and collec- tion to become a national museum, but there is surely......

Sir: I Read With Regret That Taki Has Been Found

guilty of possession of 21.4 grammes of cocaine. As this drug is now recognised a. the only international means of ex- change (re: De Lorean versus US Govt 1983/4) can readers......