28 MARCH 1981, page 18

Real Wales

Sir: Laid up with a virus infection, I have had time to read Duncan Fallowell's article last week and now to write from my London home so that at least one grand illusion can be......

Personal Habits

Sir I think it is a pity to portray W.H. Auden with a hat and with a pipe in his mouth as if it were characteristic of him. In the early Thirties he always carried a box of......

Tragi-comic

Sir: Was Peter Jenkins being disingenuous or plain stupid when he wrote (28 February) of Messrs Ntshona and Kani 'infecting' Waiting for Godot with `tragi-comic resignation' in......

The Hairy Ainu

Sir: I can see, thanks to the scholarship of your correspondent C.R Brand of Edinburgh (14 March) that I have once again been a victim of the fallacy of the eyewitness. In my......

The Marines In Mexico

Sir: As an admirer of Richard West' s reportage I have no relish in calling atte_ 11 ; non to his mistake in saying ('The Salvador inheritance', 7 March) that contrary to the......