Dented Mudguard
Sir: A collision between the imprecision of my writing style and the precision of your editing caused a sentence to appear last week in my article on Hong Kong (`Great wall of......
Guilty As Hell
Sir: Has Richard Lamb (Books, 10 April) fallen for Goring's supposed charm and humour in writing that 'it is questionable whether he ought to have been condemned to death'? At......
Nobility Defined
Sir: I was interested to read Nigel Nicol- son's column of 13 March, in which he said that Nicholas Ridley's action in pouring steaming coffee over Mr Nicolson was `nobler than......
Letters Bedside Manners
Sir: I do not have the direct experience of the courting and mating habits of the mod- ern German that your correspondents Anne McElvoy ('We might as well make love', 13 March)......
Lofty Bonding
Sir: Last week, halfway up an Italian Alp at 6,500 feet, six of us living for a week stacked three high in a room like a 'Wagon - Lit' compartment, were all strangers gath- ered......
De Haut En Bas
Sir: May I add to the teenage reading con- troversy by commenting on Caroline How- ell's letter in your 10 April issue? Miss Howell informs us that the only reason why anyone......