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The Seaside Season Sig,—Mr J. W. M. Thompson (`A Spectator's

Note- book,' September 16) may like to try out another idea the next time he finds himself in an hotel without a writing table but filled with enormous

chests of drawers. Remove one of the drawers from the chest of drawers and put it back upside down— a quick dust, and you have quite a good and reasonably steady writing area, with room for knees underneath.

MARY CAVALIERO 31 Golf Links, New Delhi, India