11 FEBRUARY 1995, page 30

Who Needs Italian?

Sir: Keith Waterhouse (Diary, 4 February) might be interested to know that the com- poser Percy Grainger used the word louden', where less Australian musicians are content with......

Ouch!

Sir: Mr David Martens has been misin- formed (`Takeover of the teenage scrib- blers', 21 January). The 'smack of firm gov- ernment' was not a Daily Telegraph leader, which would......

Purposeful Paedophilia

Sir: Simon Winchester has discovered, as journalists do from time to time, sex on the Internet (`An electronic sink of depravity', 4 February). He says he came across `alt.sex.......

The Good Bits

Sir: I think we should be told which bits of Mr Al Fayed's letters (latest, Letters, 4 February) are written by him. If they are the good bits, you should give him a col- umn.......

On The Other Hand . . .

Sir: So we are back to breast-beating again and ignoring the historical context (Centre point, 4 February). I remember, as a child, emerging from a cellar in the centre of......

Sir: I Was Interested In Simon Jenkins's Arti- Cle In

the 21 January issue. However, I would like to point out that he implied that The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (Wimbledon) did not admit women. This is not correct.......

Nature Knows Best

Sir: About this maggots/wounds business. When I was in the soldiers' ward of Manor Hospital, Walsall, in 1944, another inmate, bullet wounds in his upper arm and suffering from......

No Vengeance, Please

Sir: My brother was one of the innocent victims of the murderers who planned and caused the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103. Perhaps I should therefore be 'Crying out for......