15 NOVEMBER 1968, Page 29

Who gets the chair?

LETTERS

From Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper, David Butler, Hugh Herrington, Sam Wiggs, R. E. B. Duff, Obi Ohanenye, Angus Buchanan, T. C. Skeffington-Lodge, Joseph Chapman, Dudley G. Davies, Sir Oswald Mosley, Richard White.

Sir: Miss Starkie claims that her high-pressure methods once gave us W. H. Auden as Professor of Poetry (Letters, 8 November). In fairness, she should state in whose interest, and at whose expense, those methods have been used since and are being used now.