31 JULY 1982, page 20

Exceptional People

Dear Sir: I was glad to see your Notebook item about staff at the Charing Cross Hospital (24 July), which entirely resembles. my own experience at St Stephen's Hospital in......

Sir: Your Notebook (10 July) Was Almost More Than I

could bear, and I write this with the 'pseudo patience' which is the symptom of exasperation. Could anyone blame Mrs Thatcher if she were suffering from this at present? And......

Collet's Bookshops

Sir: In your issue of 17 July, under the heading 'Fooling Foyles', Richard West thinks fit to make a number of false allega- tions about us. He refers to our 'Bookshop'. In fact......

The Falkland Islands

Sir: You printed on 17 July a letter from Mr R.E.G. Simmerson alleging that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office had destroyed papers relevant to the work of the Falklands Review......

The Lefebvre Disconnection

Sir: As a supporter of the Pius X Society, founded by Archbishop Lefebvre, I declare my interest in questioning David Gollob's statement (10 July) that Juan Fernandez Krohn, the......

Lock-out

Sir: I am flattered that in my absence a phrase in one of my articles should have provoked Richard West into such a fine frenzy-of denunciation (17 July), but I can- not help......

Letters

A face at the window Sir: As curious as the story of the shadowy figure at the window in the empty building opposite Patrick Marnham's hotel in Guatemala City (17 July) is the......