Untimely Death
Sir: With respect to William Trevor (Books, 17/24 December) Beachcomber did not die in 1949. He died 30 years later, during the Winter of Discontent. The man who told him he was......
Letters Some Row
Sir: It is good of you so freely to indulge Paul Johnson's obsession with the Guardian, and its editor Peter Preston. He has now written innumerable times on the subject both in......
Oh, No He Wasn't
Sir: Was Noel Coward really a spy, as John Simpson asserts? (Noel Coward was a spy', 17 December). His evidence is not too good. According to his account Coward was recruited......
Doctor's Dilemma
Sir: Among William Boyd's observations on Sir Frederick Treves's surgical practice (`How King Edward VII nearly wasn't', 17/24 December) was the conclusion that the King would......
Brooks's, Boodles And Balls
Sir: Your story about exclusion of Jews from clubs in America (Taboo or not taboo, that is the question', 19 November) recalls the furore in the tabloids when a dis- tinguished......
No Such Taunts
Sir: I refer to the letter of the German Embassy's Mr Wolfgang Trautwein (Let- ters, 17/24 December) concerning the arti- cle, 'Is this what we mean by European Union?' (3......
Floreat Ambridge
Sir: F.R. Leavis would surely have seized upon John Bayley's article about the Archers (Books, 17/24 December) as an instance of the slack standards which pre- vail at Oxford.......
Doctor In The House
Boverton Avenue Brockworth, Gloucestershire......
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