25 AUGUST 1979, page 16

The Lusaka Proposals

Sir: A few days ago I was reading the editorial, 'A good beginning', in your issue of 4 August. It ended: 'Firm purpose evident at home and signs of infirmity abroad'. I fear......

Refugees And Immigrants

Sir: Mr Bramwell (letters, 21 July) is surely right in making the point that the burden of uncontrolled immigration fallson those least able to bear it, but confuses the......

The Berkeley Affair

Sir: I was deeply moved, as1 am sure many of your readers will have been, by Humphry Berkeley's African adventure (4 August) and, in particular, by the working of what he......

Cromwell's Head

Sir: In case Canon Wilkinson's daughter missed your issue of II August could I offer the confirmation about the head for which Simon Courtauld asks? Canon Wilkinson lived at......

Effect Of Tax Cuts

Sir: In his article on tax cuts (18 August) Tim Congdon was wrong to deny that changes in tax rates can alter living standards. In trying to be provocative he made several......

Alma Mahler

Sir, I have been commissioned by Martin Seeker & Warburg to write a biography of Alma Mahler, wife first of Gustav Mahler, then of Walter Gropius and finally of Franz Werfel. If......