Coram's Legacy
Sir: The admirable activities and record of the Thomas Coram Foundation listed in Colin Masters's letter (23 February) have been badly served by the repercussions, locally and......
Pointless
Sir: Last week's Diary confirms it: if Alastair Forbes was facing sentence, they'd never reach a conclusion. Full point. Stephen Mayer Mill Lane, Balcombe, West Sussex......
Jewish Questions
Sir: Frederic Raphael's condescending dis- missal of A Sense Of Belonging (Books, 16 March) contains a curious misreading of our book. We neither advocate 'a return to Jewish......
Choice Of Stools
Sir: I've been trying to trace the origin of `between two stools'. What stools? I find it in no book of quotations, sayings, folk terms, proverbs or etymologies. Did the......
Baptism To Bordeaux
Sir: Craig Brown doesn't think Anglicans take christenings seriously (Diary, 16 February). I've no doubt he put all thoughts of salty-sand and high-speed work out of his mind at......
Success At Last
Sir: For the past six years The Spectator has declined to publish any letter, article or poem I have sent to it. Obviously this will not have been because they have been thought......
Classless Method
Sir: I very much enjoyed Digby Ander- son's article on mail-order food (26 Janu- ary) in which he proved by Mr Waugh's example that one need not refrain from buying by mail......
First Among Equals
Sir: In his letter of 16 March, Roy Miles refers to Canova's Three Graces which may be seen at the Hermitage Museum. I have visited Leningrad and studied this work on half a......
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