V for venial
Sir: May I be permitted to offer my sincere apologies to all concerned for having so wantonly misled your readers in my letter last week (27 October). This time it was not your esteemed Literary Editor but his silly senile reviewer who failed to get his Vs right. For it was not, as I in a truly gaga gaffe wrote, Vera Birkin the one time Royal bride designate, but Violet, her older sister, who became Tony Lambton's mother-in-law. So much for relying on septuagenarian memory!
As for Kenneth Bridges (Letters, 27 October) he has surely been giving his foreign students a bum steer. This morn- ing's post brought me a belatedly for- warded jiffy-bag containing, unsolicited, the latest work by a member of France's Academie Francaise no less, with its au- thor's gratifying dedication. 'For Alastair Forbes from one of his faithful readers'. Alastair Forbes
1837 Chateau d'Oex, Switzerland
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