The Home Guard

Sir : I am planning a history of the Home . Guard, and I would be very grateful if any of your readers who have personal reminiscences of a serious, humorous, or any other......

Table Talk

Sir : Mr R. L. Travers, then writing from the Army and Navy Club, rebuked me for not im- posing discipline on university students. I pointed out that I had no duties or......

Early Concrete

Sir: After reading Martin Seymour-Smith's re- view of the translations of Christian Morgen- stern's Gallows Songs by W. D. Snodgrass and Lore Segal (6 September), I should like......

Those Silly 'twenties

Sir: I agree with Sir Denis Brogan that there are no rhymes to Docherty in the English lan- guage (13 September), but I respectfully suggest that had he used his native Scots......

Sir Donald. Wolfit

Sir: As Sir Donald Wolfit's literary executor, I have been commissioned by Martin Seeker and Warburg Ltd to write the `official' life of Sir Donald. I hope not only to treat the......

Incommunicado

Sir: Letters to public journals are doubtley, admirable vehicles for conducting public debates on topics of interest, but perhaps someone would explain what this has to do with......

The Operation

Sir: The Operation was a bundle of fun. Con- gratulations to John Wells on yet another in- genious spoof. Not even Harold Acton could have written so ineptly. Stephen Davies,......