Old Adam

Sir: While reading the many reviews of Sir Denis Forman's book Son of Adam, in- cluding The Spectator's (Books, 10 Novem- ber), and in reading the book itself, I have been......

Rumanian Violinist

Sir: May I appeal for help, through your columns, for a very talented young Ruma- nian violinist, who is currently stranded in London with a place on the Advanced Solo Studies......

Born-again Glashan

Sir: In the forgotten Fifties, John Glashan's 'The Eye of the Needle' was my Bible. On the back (from memory) was a painting of Glashan 'done by a chimpan- zee' and the short......

Ali's Aunts

Sir: I have been shown two copies of Spectators, in one of which (Letters, 27 October) Alastair Forbes wrote about one of my wife's aunts in the 1920s, and in the next admitted......

Hammering The Scots

Sir: It would be churlish indeed for me to take any sort of general issue with Brian Masters's benignly witty review (Books, 3 November) of The Faber Book of Blue Verse which I......

Books For Rumania

Sir: In your letters page (2 June) you published a letter from Tim Heald and Simon Brett asking for books to be sent to me. The response was exceptional, but unfortunately most......

Letters Numbers Game

Sir: There is a problem with the leadership election scenario sketched by Alan Wat- kins in his diary last week (10 November); he got one basic fact wrong. There are 372......