9 JUNE 1973, page 25

Rowse On Shakespeare

Sir: While Dr Rowse engages in his spirited bouts with all corners, one can quietly follow up trails as he suggest. And all the evidence about his Emilia Lanier so far......

Sir: Considering That I Was Sent, No Proof Of My

article (June 2) your reproduction of it was a miracle of exactitude. But there were two mistakes: Gabriel Towne should of course be Thomas Towne. And my harmless little joke......

Homosexuals

'Sir: I apologise for intruding on your columns two weeks running. But Mr D. Watkins rightly challenges my statement that" nowadays a politician would not, be forced out of......

Palmer Under Fire

Sir: In what passes as a review but which is in fact a peevish " hatchet job," Tony Palmer takes more than a column to attack the author of Death Cap, June Thomson, for writing......

Sir: I Was Appalled By The Mindless And Impertinent...

that Tony Palmer had the effrontery to offer as a ' book-review ' of Angus Wilson's As If by Magic; and by the strange editorial indulgence which had seen fit to waste a......

Juliette's Weekly Frolic

In the old days, when it was run on a Friday, the Epsom Oaks had a neat habit of coinciding with halfterm holiday and was naturally a firm favourite with this hardened gambler.......