22 MARCH 1968, page 31

Dame Edith Sitwell

Sir: We are preparing a volume of selected letters of the late Dame Edith Sitwelr, which will be published ,by Messrs Macmillan. We would appreciate it if anyone who owns......

Sir: I Shall Confine Myself To Two Points In Sir

Robert Birley's letter of 8 March. In spite of Sir Robert's statement that 'Before 1945 and after 1955 the government has paid a fixed sum of money to,African education out of......

International Boer

Sir: Professor Manning (Letters, 15 March) says that I have conceded that General Smuts had before him the product of Dumbarton Oaks when he formulated the draft preamble for......

The Pianola Generation

AFTERTHOUGHT JOHN WELLS Forty, fifty, sixty, even seventy years ago they jitterbugged the nights away to the captivating rhythms of the Blue Bottom, the Shammie and the Dashing......

Cricket Trad And Mod

Sir: Brushing aside the tears aroused by Mr Simon Raven's gallant defence, both splendid and forlorn, of something or other (15 March), one is able to see a little further into......

Dare To Be A Catman

Sir: I enjoyed Anthony Burgess's article about cats very much (15 March): but as a cleric much concerned with credal orthodoxy I was disturbed by his use of the ward fetes in......

A Case Of Blind Man's Bluff

Sir: Reuters dispatches are commonly held to have their own substance. The one you mention in your article on the Rhodesian hangings (8 March) had none because it did not exist.......