Foul-up

Sir: I am sorry that my foul handwriting led you to suppose I was describing the Amer- ican psychologist I met on BBC's Start the Week as 'most aggressive' (Another voice, 21......

Francis Thompson

Sir: P. J. Kavanagh is always a welcome visitor to the London Library, but his mind must have been on blackberries and bird- song when he failed to find anything here on Francis......

Farmer-bashing

Sir: Could Mrs Jean Hayes (`Alien corn', 14 September) please be given some simple facts? All wheat, when ripe, bends over at the head: furthermore, after rain (and there was......

Letters King Charles The Martyr

Sir: At a gathering of American Episcopa- lian bishops, there was a unanimous vote to add Dr Martin Luther King to the calendar of saints. But, despite support from several......

Mr Lambton's Defects

Sir: Mr Lambton's review of A. N. Wil- son's Gentlemen in England (Books, 14 September) was not only unpleasant; it was incompetent. The unpleasantness is a mat- ter between Mr......

Over-promoted

Sir: A small point relating to Patrick Marnham's very generous review of my book (21 September): he has promoted me. The only Lieutenant Cobb in my family was my father — in the......

Keith Douglas

Sir: We were pleased to see Peter Levi's review of Keith Douglas, A Prose Miscel- lany, in the Spectator (7 September), but should like to put the record straight on one point.......