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Sir: As an appreciative new Spectator reader (generous sister's birthday present) I send the following vignette, circa 1892. I am re-reading my long-ago friend Dame Katherine......
For The Record
Sir: I suppose that the review of my Friends and Contemporaries by my earlier protege , Raymond Carr (Books, 22 April) was not unkindly meant. (To explain, for the re - cord: he......
They Can Take It
Sir: May I claim the right of reply to Paul Johnson's gratuitous `rubbishing' of copy- takers in his article on the new technology (The press, 6 May)? Copytakers as a body of......
Perhaps Not
Sir: Auberon Waugh 'lurching' in Chan - cery Lane (Another voice, 22 April). Shurely shome mishtake. Richard Stephenson 2 Dittons Park Road, Langley, Slough, Buckinghamshire......
Mene, Mene
Sir: One of the several pleasures to be found in visiting ruined abbeys and castles, is that of seeing the usually carefully cut and occasionally embellished graffiti left by......
D. H. Lawrence
Sir: I have been commissioned by Hamish Hamilton and Simon and Schuster to write a book on D. H. Lawrence — the man, the marriage and the social impact. I would be grateful to......
Unexplained Slaughter
Sir: Every time I cross Hyde Park Corner on foot I am affronted by a biblical text so offensively inappropriate that one can comprehend neither its choice, even 60 years ago,......
Coffee And Newspapers
Sir: Would you please note that Peter Phillips' article about music colleges (8 April) is inaccurate in the following re- spects: 1. Allegations of 'strife' at the Royal Academy......
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