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Help On Hankin

Sir: I am preparing a biographical critical study of the Edwardian dramatist St John E. C. Hankin, who died in 1909. I need much more information than is already published about......

Booksellers' Blight

Sir: Surprising as it may seem, Benny Green's criticism of booksho - s (Juno 12) is shared by at least one bookseller who is attempting to do something about it. Even in these......

Isis Worship

Sir: Mr Hollis misses certain points. As author of a book about Isis I naturally hope your readers (including some expert Catholic theologians) will take to heart what is......

Right Price

Sir: Christopher Booker is somewhat inexact when in his review of the Dictionary of National Biography 1951-60 (July 3) he remarks that the price is three or four times that of......

Death Is America

Sir: John Rowan Wilson is right (July 10). The death rate has not gone down in the past quarter of a century because new diseases have appeared to replace those which organic......

Statement From Sir Terence Rattigan

Sir: My attention has been drawn to a report in your issue for June 19 to the effect that I have deserted my tax-haven home to return to Britain to receive the accolade of......

The American Cancer Debate

Sir: We are in debt to The Spectator and Dr Bernard Dixon for bringing to public notice what he calls "the Great American Debate on Cancer Research " in his article 'Cancer......