3 FEBRUARY 1961, Page 13

FROM HERE TO OBSCENITY SIR,—After reading Alan Bricn's entertaining article

'From Here to Obscenity,' I took up my book (Thomas Moore's Memoirs) and found entered in his journal on February 4, 1819:

'Read Wycherley's Country Wife; an admirable comedy, but the foundation of its plot makes it not only unactablc, but even unreadable, except by men.' —Yours faithfully,

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