Cardinal Qualities

Sir: A. N. Wilson's cruel begorra-like caricature of the late Cardinal Tomas O'Fiaich (Diary, 19 May) missed by a mile the true qualities of the man. His great attribute was his......

Feting Dumfries

Sir: D. A. Yerrill (Letters, 26 May) sells Dumfries short. He is not the only Dum- fries reader. There's me, and there's the poet (published) I talk to in the pub. Incidentally,......

Wraiths Of Raith

Sir: Mr Yerrill's answer to Frank Keating's question about the football club Queen of the South reminds me of another confu- sion over the whereabouts of a Scottish club. Some......

Intimations Of Mortality

Sir: This letter is long overdue and might never have been written had not I, coming back from a long trip, rediscovered Lord Jock Bruce-Gardyne's remarkable article of last......

Letters

Blood lines Sir: Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, in his review of Debrett (Books, 5 May) fails to do justice to the estate workers who have, over the years, maintained the lines of......

Fatty Who?

Sir: Who are these fattifers and thinnifers referred to by Christopher Fildes's eminent central banker friend (City and Suburban, 26 May)? Could he have been thinking of the......

Books For Rumania

Sir: Noel Malcolm's article on Rumania (`Good old bad old times', 26 May) seemed distressingly accurate to me and no more so than when he wrote about Ruma- nians being 'starved......