From Patricia Gale
Sir: I liked Peregrine Worsthorne's account of Vanessa Lawson (24 August) who was as wonderful as he says, and I was touched by his nostalgia about the many wonderful sights he......
Harsh Judge
Sir: Your reviewer's very flattering re- marks (Books, 10 August) on Ronald Spector's Eagle Against the Sun failed to comment on the complete absence of any map. This oversight......
Unforgivable Cruelty
Sir: I would like to record my admiration for Dhiren Bhagat's harrowing article in this week's issue (`Auschwitz for the chick- ens', 31 August). Here is one at least who though......
Charles Johnston
Sir: Might I suggest R. Eban (Letters, 24 August) contacts Crane's Bookshop of Rosemary Street, Belfast. This firm obtained a copy of Charles Johnston's selected poems for me......
Not Portuguese
Sir: The photographer who was killed during the attack on Greenpeace's Rain- bow Warrior was not Portuguese but Dutch. He was a descendant of one of the numerous Portuguese......
Letters Nationality First
Sir: Andrew Brown, when describing humorous rivalry as 'revanchist national- ism' (Baltic tears and vodka', 17 August), made a common mistake with British people. That is to......
No Movers And Shakers
Sir: Timothy Garton Ash writes (`God- damn Nato and goddamn Tories', 10 Au- gust): of . . that most select elite, the American readers of the Spectator'. I know a dozen......
Gibbon's Assumption
Sir: Of course A. N. Wilson (Letters, 24 August) was aware that the legend of the Assumption was extant long before 1950: Mr Robinson was being silly-clever. It goes back 15......
Bedpan Virtues
Sir: As a onetime long-suffering tube traveller, I feel compelled to speak out in British Rail's defence (Letters, 31 August). I have for some time now been an ardent admirer.......
Pubescent Clichés
Sir: Your critic, Alexander Chancellor, praises the only example I saw of David Frost's ITV series Twenty Years On (Tele- vision, 31 August). The programme filled whatever there......
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