Sir: I Am Sorry I Did Not Check The Cato
reference, but allowing Thomas Wte cle j mann's correction (Letters, 23 JanuarY) , still do not think that making his ma le slaves pay his female slaves for sex makes Cato a......
The Price Of Slavery
Sir: Thomas Wiedemann (Letters, 23 January) accepts an explanation about the sex life of Cato's slaves that was, to the best of my knowledge, first made by Professor A. H. Astin......
Family Thais
Sir: Alexander Chancellor in his Notebook (30 January) was quite right to observe that `people like Prince Chula Birabongse of Siam' were hardly among those who, according to......
Who Was Pendennis?
Sir: Paul Johnson last week, while condemning most newspaper gossip col- umns, explained that the Observer 'used to have an entertaining "Pendennis" feature by Harold Nicolson',......
Letters
Heroic resistance Sir: In his article of 30 January Mr Simon Winchester says that there is hardly any sign of Soviet troops in Afghanistan. It seems the interest of the Western......
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