25 JANUARY 1992, page 24

Hat's Enough Of Hat

Sir: Michael Kennedy's letter (18 January) states that Toscanini never said, 'To Strauss the composer I take off my hat; to Strauss the man I put it on again.' I was close to......

African Calamity

Sir: Paul Johnson's article, 'Time to stop chattering about Aids' (7 December), dis- misses Aids as a scare promoted by the homosexual lobby in order to extract money from the......

Letters A Child's Second Chance

Sir: Charles Moore is quite right to take a dim view of the Department of Health's recently published discussion paper on intercountry adoption (Another voice, 18 January). Of......

The Sedge Is Wither'd

Sir: I would like to thank Paul Johnson (And another thing, 18 January) for telling us that 'Keats had completed his life-work when he died, aged 26, five years later'. Now......

Duff Information

Sir: Contrary to what I said in my review of Kate Fleming's book about her mother (Books, 23 November), it was Duff, rather than Rupert, who wrote the Hart-Davis biography of......

Powys Redivivus

Sir: As a long-time devotee of the works of John Cowper Powys I was delighted to read that A.N. Wilson has now discovered this great British writer (Diary, 11 January). Powys......