8 AUGUST 1987, page 22

Incoherent

Incoherent Sir: The omission of a line from my review of the Ravel double bill at Glyndebourne must have made me sound incoherent as well as bad-tempered. The fourth paragraph......

[sir: You Were Taken In By Bill (william?]

Silly Billy Sir: You were taken in by Bill (William?) I Wells of Cambridge (Letters, 1 August). I bet he's the sort of patronising middle-class twit that comes to 95 per cent......

[sir: I Feel So Sorry For Your Correspondent,...]

Sir: I feel so sorry for your correspondent, I Bill Wells (Letters, 1 August). I am an OAP living on considerably less than f75 a week. A generous and thoughtful friend gave me......

Wanted For Murder

Wanted for murder Sir: Magnus Linklater in 'The death of my paper' (1 August) quotes one of the sports journalists on the London Daily News as saying that 'the operation was a......

Stones Of Athens

Stones of Athens Sir: Your reviewer Mr Noel Malcolm (Books, 1 August) is a difficult man to please. When I say that two whole chapters of my book on the Elgin marbles are in......

Innocent Soldiers

Innocent soldiers Sir: Hermione Goulding (Letters 25 July) regards anyone who joins up without being prepared 'to die should it be required of them' as innocent 'only in the old......

Converted Village

L E T T E R S Converted village Sir: Lest you think that you are being. singled out for the full weight of British Telecom ineptitude at the Holborn exchange, I can assure you......