23 AUGUST 1975, page 5

From Sir Arthur Driver

Sin I have purchased The SpectaLo r , regularly since the year 1938 and supptse, therefore, that I must be one 0' its oldest readers. • I have always regarded its propet......

Sir: Suggestions For Improving The Spectator? Perhaps You...

the answer, for your Notebook (August 9 ) also refers to the importance of 'good writing'. This is surely the key to it. There is far too .much sloppy writing these days in a......

Sir: Following Your 'notebook' Item On The Future Of The

Spectator 1 would like to put forward some suggestions: A return to letterpress printing. If .litho is to be retained perhaps a sparing Ase could be made of half-tones: they,......

Sir: May I Venture, As One Of Your "hard Core"

of subscribers, to put forward some complaints? (1) Too many articles appear to be written from reading the papers instead of from experience. The day we get an ,article from......

' S Un ' And 'mirror'

\ , Sir: If your newest press pundit Robert Ashley (August 9) was really working for Mirror Group Newspapers, he would probably get his facts right. So he probably isn't. Mirror......

Abortion And Population

From Professor C. 0. Carter Sir; I would be grateful if I might correct an error in your correspondence columns. Mrs Sanders writes (August 9) that "The Eugenics Society gives......

Darrow And Fonda

Sir: I am indebted to Miss Llewellyn (August 9) for her natural desire to put me right about three errors I'm alleged to have made in my recent article on Darrow. But am I wrong......

National Wealth

Sir: Nicholas Davenport, writing about the distribution of the national wealth, quotes the Royal Commission as arriving at a figure of 34.9 per cent of the national wealth being......

Transfiguration

Sir: Mr Nicholas Walter is of course quite right to remind us that in the Gospels a "threefold tradition" is often only a single tradition; but at least it is comparatively......

Erratum

Sir: Last week you published a letter criticising some curious comments on writers' earnings made in 'A Spectator's Notebook'. Since I prefer to give my opinions under my own......