26 JUNE 2004, page 27

A Lesbian Life

From Clarke Hayes Sir: At the risk of sounding pedantic, Vita Sackville-West did not go through a syracusan nor a lesbian 'phase' (Harry Mount, Books, 19 June). Vita......

No Comrades In Arms

From Jonathan Mirsky Sir: Not for the first time Taki (High life, 12 June) praises Hitler's generals, in this case saying that 'if that moron Hitler had listened to von......

Russian Reserve

From Professor Stephen Senn Sir: Max Hastings is right that the Russians are somewhat reserved about the importance of D-Day (Diary, 12 June), although any view of their own......

America's Social Realist

From Stephen Schwartz Sir: Andrew Lambirth was quite wrong to say in his article (Arts, 5 June) that the artistic 'work of Alice Neel (1900-84) has never been shown outside her......

England's Heroic 'hooligans'

From Thomas Oliver Elmes Sir: There is much debate about the English football louts and the disgrace they bring to our country (England's thugs and losers', 12 June). They are......

Tortoise Tales

From Susan Turner Sir: My brother was given a tortoise to cheer him up while recovering from whooping cough, aged seven (Letters, 5 June). He named it Jimmy. Previous tortoises......

Barred From His Beach

From Toby Malik Sir: I work in a camera shop. One of our regulars came in, having returned from the 60th D-Day reunion with films for development. He said that he had had a......