Wormwood
Sir: Mr Giles Playfair usually writes so per- ceptively on prison matters: I cannot under- stand the fog that has come between him and Zeno's Life (31 January). George Blake,......
Sir: I Regret That By An Inexcusable Lapse Of Memory
I transferred Chateaubriand from Saint-Malo to Brest (7 February). My only ex- cuse is that I was busy with the career of Chateaubriand for reasons which have nothing to do with......
After You, Cecil
AFTERTHOUGHT JOHN WELLS My father, whose name I forget, was a fat, lazy man in a tweed pork-pie hat with a tobacco-stained moustache. Someone I once met somewhere told me that......
Sir: 'verify Your Quotations,' As Sir Denis Brogan...
(Letters, 31 January), is a counsel we neglect at our peril. Ever so slightly pricked by the verb 'None of us are ...' in Sir Denis's quotation, I looked also at my Oxford......
Play Group
Sir : Mr Nyman (17 January), whilst having endeared himself to us all with his taxidermic puns and lachrymatory wit, so obviously the result of earnest lucubration, really must......
By Public Demand
Sir: In his review of our The Lost Theatres of London (13 December), George Rowell, to point his personal opinion, to which he is quite entitled, that the book is indigestible......
Sir: Dictionaries Of Quotations Are Fallible, As Sir...
says (Letters, 31 January), and they must sometimes take one another's attributions on trust. So he is less than cock- sure in refuting Mr Braby's suggestion that Montagu Butler......
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