9 APRIL 1988, page 26

American Express

American Express Sir: The cover of your issue of 27 February, featuring a cartoon of the American Express Card linked with the article 'The debtors of Smack City', came as some......

Agony In Israel

Agony in Israel Sir: I should like to correct two errors for which I alone am responsible in my article 'When clubs are trumps' (19 March). The first is that The New York Review......

Top Drawer

Top drawer Sir: Sorting out a drawer full of papers I came across Jeffrey Bernard's brilliantly funny piece of 17 March 1984, about firewatching 'with Ivy Compton Burnett, who......

Problem Solved

Problem solved Sir: One of the greatest works of Christian mysticism is Dante's Divine Comiedy. Canto 33 of II Plriqatorio includes an unsolved numerical prophecy concerning the......

What Daisy Says

What Daisy says Sir: If Miss Daisy Waugh does not choose to speak English in the accents of her father and mother, P. R. Bonnett (Letters, 26 March) can rest assured that it is......