Scottish heritage
Sir: I owe you and the readers of the Spectator an apology for the apparent illegibility of my handwriting that caused the mistakes (peculiarly blushmaking for someone so severe on others' slips as a reviewer in your pages) in my piece on 'Scottish Heritage' (16 March). Thus, the rooms affected by the Dunrobin holiday complex are presently unoccupied rather than 'occupied'; the Thirlestane (not `Thir- lestone) charitable trust was endowed by the National Heritage Memorial Fund not with £65,000 but £650,000; and 'Gutherie'
(ouch) should have read Guthrie. In view of this, you may care to amend your flattering suggestion that I should be granted chambers at Hampton Court (Notes, 5 March) in favour of alternative accommodation in, say, the dungeons of Edinburgh Castle.
Talking of 'Hampers' (as I once heard one of its dowagerish denizens refer to the palace), surely the Prince of Wales, whose feeling for architecture was so memorably expressed within its walls last year, should regain possession of this royal residence lamentably abandoned in favour of Wind- sor by George III?
Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd
29 Clanricarde Gardens, London W2
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