Lack of choler
From Mr Graham Binns
Sir: Ruth Guilding is entitled to her percep- tion of the proceedings of the British Muse- um colloquium (Arts, 11 December) but I take issue with her when she ascribes 'cho- leric intemperance' to the 'home-grown members of the Committee for the Restitu- tion of the Parthenon Marbles'. I was the only representative of that committee to speak. I said that the case for restitution and the subject of the conference were sep- arate issues and that the conference was
not properly concerned with restitution — something which earlier had been referred to, contemptuously, by a 'distinguished' member of the museum's panel, a Mr Daley. I also remarked that the committee had, in its brochure, declared that the Mar- bles had 'been carefully kept in the British Museum', but that it now seemed that we had been sadly mistaken. I do not regard these observations as intemperate — nei- ther did anyone else think they were.
Graham Binns
Chairman, The British Committee for the Restitution of the Parthenon Marbles, 5 St Paul's Place,
London Ni
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