Silken Dalliance

Sir: I have no doubt that Roger Shaw (Letters, 16 March) speaks Spanish fluent- ly; but is it not he, and not Edith Gross- man, who has boobed? In his assertion that the Spanish......

Illegal Tender

Sir: HM Treasury is correct in its assertion that, 'Legal tender is a specialised legal concept with little practical significance for the acceptability of a currency.' Tim......

Cowardly Practice

Sir: I am delighted that Craig Brown (Diary, 2 March) has taken up a cause long dear to my heart, the red uctio ad absurd urn of the epithet 'cowardly' to denigrate actions of......

Designer Error

Sir: The Australian embassy in Paris was designed by my father, Harry Seidler, who is, appropriately, Australian and not by Marcel Breuer as stated by Alan Powers (Arts, 23......

Maxim Mutiny

Sir: Mr Simpson's sympathetic article 'Not just the Maxim gun' (9 March), is marred in one respect. I doubt if he can have read 'The Modern Traveller' in whole or in part. He......

Tea And Methodism

Sir: I have read Charles Moore's percep- tive article (Another voice, 9 March) on trends in the Anglican Church with the greatest interest. Their resemblance to the......

Native Prejudice

Sir: George Chowdharay-Best suggests (lord Salisbury's black man', 16 Febru- ary) that the great Conservative Prime Minister was encouraging racial prejudice with his comments......