Letters No Sin In Tolerance
Sir: M a heretical Protestant, it would appear to me that Piers Paul Read's con- cern for Paul Johnson's orthodoxy (`The danger to Paul', 17 October) stems from Mr Johnson's......
The Origin Of Misconception
Sir: Paul Johnson (And another thing, 17 October) tells us that 'on a famous occasion' Darwin 'politely but firmly refused Marx's invitation to strike a Faustian bargain'. Pre-......
Diffusing Gossip
Sir: Concerning gossip (Shared opinion, 17 October), surely the way out of Frank Johnson's predicament is to drop sufficient hints about the identity of the two persons......
Sir: If, As Alison Weir Says, 'no Monarch Before Or
since was ever held in such affec- tion,' how was it that Elizabeth I never dared to set foot across the Trent throughout her reign? That the film Elizabeth features Durham......
Northern Exposure
Sir: Simon Hoggart (`The thirty years war', 10 October) says that the Observer was the only paper interested in Ulster affairs before 1969. That may be. But in 1968, when I was......
Elizabethan Pr Sir: The Fact That Elizabeth I Made Speech-
es in which she spoke of the love of her subjects does not mean that she was loved by them. May I congratulate Alison Weir (`The Queen who still rules us', 17 Octo- ber) on......
Previous page
