Grosart

Sir: There may not be a statue to the Revd Alexander B. Grosart, as P. J. Kavanagh remarks (Life and letters, 19 July), but I wrote an article about him 30 years ago when I was......

Letters County Boundaries

Sir: I wish Christopher Booker had check- ed some facts with us before criticising the Local Government Boundary Commis- sion. Far from being over, as he implied in last week's......

Useless Grammar

Sir: Mr Baker seems unaware of what has been official policy on the teaching of English grammar over a period of rather longer than the 20 years he mentions (Valeries Grove,......

Jewish Dispersion

Sir: Charles Glass is mistaken when he states in his review (6 September) that the Jews of Iraq were almost unique in not being part of the Diaspora created in 70A.D after the......

Gearoid Mac Gearailt

Sir: Probably many readers felt that Stan Gebler Davies in his article about the present position of the Irish language (Dear acid tongue', 6 September) was unduly censorious......

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