5 JANUARY 1991, page 20

Letters Boys And Girls

Sir: Sandra Barwick raises important issues concerning the well-being of girls within `boys' schools (Tully for them', 15 Decem- ber). Setting aside the difficulties that these......

Sir: Following Five Years Of Systematic Bullying At...

College, my subsequent education at Marlborough was a welcome release and a delight. I was treated with unfailing courtesy and good humour by the masters, and felt loved and......

Sir: Sandra Barwick's Article On Bullying At...

excellent as far as it goes. However, its conclusions — that girls are bullied at schools such as Marl- borough because they are in a minority is not borne out either by my own......

Festering Feet

Sir: I cannot imagine any of your readers, of whom I have been one for many years, being remotely interested in the working day of a chiropodist, as described by Candida Crewe......

Winter Wonderland

Sir: Has any reader spotted a wearer of the Spectator Winter Hat? I noted one in the Arboretum at Westonbirt, but your full- page and persistent advertisement must surely by now......

Rhomboid Riddle

Sir: It is quite wrong to describe me, in Glashan's cartoon (15 December), as the Rhombus Motcombe of nuclear physics. James Symington 5 Nevern Square, London SW5......

Bon Marche

Sir: Nigella Lawson's contributions give us much amusement. It is such fun to read of the often curious dishes which people in the UK are apparently prepared to eat and pay for......

Prison Service

Sir: I regret the esteemed Spectator is not yet regular or required reading among the inmates or medicine men at the prison where I minister as Methodist chaplain. Otherwise I......