25 MAY 1962, page 12

Unclean

SIR,— Further to the comment of your columnist 'Starbuck' may I, as one of the candidates referred to in your issue of May 18, make some correction to the statements made......

Sir, — The Great Mexican Painter, David Alfaro Siqueiros,...

to eight years' im- prisonment by a Mexican court, on specious charges and without conclusive evidence—a sentence which in the circumstances may amount to life im- prisonment.......

Stanley Spencer

SIR,—Can anything justify the publication in such callous haste of what the Sunday Times has called 'The Strange Life of Stanley Spencer'? Mr. Collis's biography has caused......

Sir,—naturally I Don't Want To Carp At Mr. Thom Gunn's

review of my Between Mars and Venus. But (though this seldom seems to penetrate into the poems themselves) I am a political writer as well as a poet, and one of his points gives......

Hymns As Poetry

SIR,—I was away when you published a letter from T. D. of London about my review of The English Hymnal Service Book. T. D. denies my fondest points; I'd like to reassert them.......

Watercress

SIR,-1 must make a plea for the keeping qualities of watercress which Miss Elizabeth David has found to be little beyond one day. By washing watercress in cold water, draining......