The Home Guard
Sir : I am planning a history of the Home . Guard, and I would be very grateful if any of your readers who have personal reminiscences of a serious, humorous, or any other......
Table Talk
Sir : Mr R. L. Travers, then writing from the Army and Navy Club, rebuked me for not im- posing discipline on university students. I pointed out that I had no duties or......
Early Concrete
Sir: After reading Martin Seymour-Smith's re- view of the translations of Christian Morgen- stern's Gallows Songs by W. D. Snodgrass and Lore Segal (6 September), I should like......
Those Silly 'twenties
Sir: I agree with Sir Denis Brogan that there are no rhymes to Docherty in the English lan- guage (13 September), but I respectfully suggest that had he used his native Scots......
Sir Donald. Wolfit
Sir: As Sir Donald Wolfit's literary executor, I have been commissioned by Martin Seeker and Warburg Ltd to write the `official' life of Sir Donald. I hope not only to treat the......
Incommunicado
Sir: Letters to public journals are doubtley, admirable vehicles for conducting public debates on topics of interest, but perhaps someone would explain what this has to do with......
The Operation
Sir: The Operation was a bundle of fun. Con- gratulations to John Wells on yet another in- genious spoof. Not even Harold Acton could have written so ineptly. Stephen Davies,......