5 OCTOBER 1996, Page 40

A little too gallant

Sir: Tunku Varadarajan, of the Times, dis- interestedly leaps (Letters, 28 September) to the defence of his colleague Rachel Campbell-Johnston, to tell us she is 'writing well-crafted obituaries . . every day'. We all no doubt approve of his Burke-like gal- lantry, but our proficiency in media studies would have benefited much more if he had told us whether it was Ms Campbell-John- ston who, in the well-crafted obituary of James Gulliver (the Times, 24 September 1996), 11 times called him Gulliver and six times called him Sullivan.

J.L.A. Hartley

46 Winchester Court, London W8

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