Sir: Mr Malim Mentions The Influence Of Oxford's Uncle,...
Golding, who trans- lated Ovid; another uncle (by marriage) was my ancestor Sir Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-1547), who, as well as his other accomplishments, was a gifted......
Letters The True Will
Sir: I am in complete agreement with Richard Malim's identification of Edward de Vere as the • true Shakespeare (They haven't the necessary Will', 9 January). Most interested......
The Enemy Within
Sir: I can't help with Alice Miles's specula- tion about the source of the Guardian's Mandelson loan scoop (Friends, enemies and a parcel astray, 9 January). But I should point......
Sir: The Spelling Of My Surname Was The Most Accurate
point in Derek 'Dolly' Drap- er's long whinge. The disgraced lobbyist got that wrong (it's Maguire, not McGuire), so I leave readers to judge the accuracy of the rest of his......
History Lesson
Sir: Just for the record, I feel obliged to make a couple of factual corrections to Robert Taylor's excellent article on the Labour party's amnesia about its own histo- ry......
Hung For A Lamb
Sir: I was bewildered to read a piece by Derek Draper (Media studies', 9 January) in which he claims that he and I had a tele- phone conversation about the 'Notting Hill Gate'......
Toping And Niagara
Sir: Peter Paterson complains (Harold was a toper too', 9 January) that in a Mail on Sunday article I did not say at what time in the evening of 14 March 1968 I answered, in the......
Technical Failure
Sir: I have the advantage over Hamish Tay- lor (Letters, 2 January), who responded on behalf of Eurostar to Alistair Home's com- plaints about his journey to Waterloo. Mr Taylor......