Staying On

Sir: The residents of the Grant Govan Homes have done nothing whatever to jus- tify William Dalrymple's mocking article `Playing the white man' (22 February). They are a retired......

A Rare Honour

Sir: You are indeed honoured to receive a letter from John L. Cabot of Massachusetts in your issue of 14 March. According to local legend, Massachusetts is the place where......

Boon Pong's Porn-porn

Sir: My article 'A cricketer under the Japs' (15 February) has elicited from readers much hitherto unknown to me which I hope you will feel is worth a postscript. Thanks to......

P.t.o.

Sir: How I enjoyed the judicious placing of George Lines' letter on tub justice (14 March). Turning the page gave me much cause for mirth. Quentin Toby Gore 89 Church Way,......

Orson's Cuckoo

Sir: Auberon Waugh may have succumbed to the solicitations of a Swiss paradiso ter- restre (Another voice, 11 January), but he ought to realise, for the sake of literary......

Nikolaus Pevsner

Sir: We are writing the biography of Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, to be published in 1994 by Heinemann, and should be grateful to hear from any of your readers who have memories of......

Clerical Loss Of Nerve

Sir: Simon Heffer's thoughtful article on crime (Politics, 15 February) merits com- ment, even if this is unavoidably delayed. He refers to 'liberal penology (all society's......