Philby's Birthday

Sir: Let Murray Sayle (`My friend Kim', 21 May) take heart: Philby, who lied to all the world, inCluding Claire Hollingworth, told him the truth for once. The Record of Old......

Carry-on

Sir: Your leading article (`Carry on Nurse', 4 June) contains so many inaccuracies it is difficult in a short letter to correct them all but I will attempt to put the record......

Mean Guitar

Sir: Roy Kerridge's article ('Blacks and blues in Mississippi',. 7 May) in which he discovered a 'new kind of prejudice' in the American South, should be in your '. . and......

Stubbs In The Louvre

Sir: Sir Michael Levey's appreciative re- view of Sir Lawrence Gowing's Paintings in the Louvre (9 April) regretted the museum's 'meagre representations of the 18th-century......

Letters Penal Colonies

Sir: With reference to the article, 'Bring back Botany Bay' (14 May), could I suggest to Mr Barker that England finds her own space for penal settlements? While I appreciate his......

Sir: I Wish Paul Barker Well In His Campaign For

the establishment of . huMane penal colonies. This is a splendid idea whose complete dismissal by prison reformers and the Government is inexplicable. I raised the suggestion in......

Pox Chicken

Sir: Was Goethe (Books, 16 April) a coward to be afraid of the pox? In his day syphilis, common in Rome and Naples, was a killer. Circumspection, as with Aids now, was common......