22 AUGUST 1992, page 19

Sir: Do Mrs Fermor-hesketh's Insights Have Any Bearing On...

Hesketh's public life? By publishing her letter you suggest they do. I would disagree, but in any case I am in a position flatly to contradict the impres- sion she gives. I was......

Letters Talk Of Alexander

Sir: A distant relation by marriage, I would like to attest the 'legendary charm' of Lord Hesketh, disputed by your correspondent, the Hon Mrs Fermor-Hesketh, his sister-in- law......

Great Lyons Sausage

Sir: Jeffrey Bernard observes that there should be a law against Grand Prix racing drivers spraying good champagne after a victory (Low life, 8 August). For the 1924 French......

Value For Money

Sir: I was not surprised to read that passen- gers on a train raised no objection when a couple carried out acts of gross indecency and protested only when they lit up after-......

Sir: Surely Jeanne Fermor-hesketh's Derogatory Letter...

ties of her brother-in-law should have been consigned to the wastepaper-bin. You may have started another downward trend: there will be no shortage of sisters- in-law, first......

Marital Advice

Sir: I am sorry that Digby Anderson's young middle-class friends have attended such an unfortunate and improbable sam- ple of weddings (`The gang-nosh: a social problem', 25......

Yah-boo-a-loo

Sir: 'A-wop-bop-aloo-bop-a-wop-bam- boom', indeed! Brian McDermott (Letters, 8 August) and the critic he seeks to correct (Television, 25 July) are both talking non- sense.......