Sir John Wilson, Keeper of the Queen's Philatelic Collection, has
been defending the new 2d. and lid. stamps against critics. I find it astonishing that any critics of the stamps should exist. I have licked stamps in six successive reigns, and have never affixed one of them to an envelope with the same pleasure that I do the present ones. Indeed I have difficulty in refraining from buying far too many of them at a time for the sheer delight of seeing them in the mass. The credit must be shared—in not quite equal parts. First comes the Queen, for providing so charming a subject for the engraver, second the designer for supplying so dignified and simple a setting. If people don't like_ this, what, I wonder, do they like. Probably the combination of Epstein and Stanley Spencer which is to adorn Llandaff Cathedral. This seems to suggest a new supplication in the Litany.
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