18 NOVEMBER 1989, page 27

No Relation Either

Sir: 'How surprised he would be to know he had given birth to a slasher movie,' writes Hilary Mantel, invoking the shade of Charles Williams, friend of C. S. Lewis and writer of......

Sir: Mr Whitley's Article Included A Number Of Factual...

BhS has never had a strong freehold property portfolio and it is simply untrue to say that Sir Terence sold freeholds and saddled BhS with expensive leaseholds. Nor have we......

No Relation

Sir: I cannot allow C. A. Basset's cruel and provocative comment (Letters, 4 Novem- ber) on your distinguished humourist Wal- lace Arnold to pass unchallenged. Most of us......

Authentic Fetish

Sir: I'd like to make a few points that arise from Richard Abram's letter about mod- ern Bach-performance (21 October). First it is hardly 'anachronistic' for Vaughan Williams......

Thanks

Sir: Alexandra Artley's excellent article on the Thomas Coram Foundation for Chil- d ren, 'A foundling father to our children' (21 October), has generated considerable interest......

Letters Junk Junket

Sir: Problems with junk mail? Over here We have sometimes found it helpful to (a) detach the guaranteed prepaid return post- age from the offending correspondence and (b) use it......

Murder Victim

Sir: Mr Edward Whitley's article (`Design and fall', 11 November) about retailing and my Part in it was wildly inaccurate and con- tinued to perpetrate misinformation inven- ted......

A Dictionary Of Cant

OVER - ZEALOUS. A classical euphem- ism for the actions of policemen, social workers, and anyone with statutory authority to wreck lives, whenever they exhibit a devotion to......