15 FEBRUARY 1957, Page 15

HEN AND PEN SIR, — Is it in order for me to

ask what moved Mr. Kingsley Amis to say : 'There is little to choose between the poultry run and the PEN Club as restricting stamping-grounds for writers'? I am *will- ing to acknowledge him an authority on poultry runs and stamping-grounds and the kind of writer frequenting them : what puzzles me is his reference to the International Association of writers known as the PEN, of which he has never been a member, but which, I am sure, would afford him ample grounds for stamping if that's what he wants to do. —Yours faithfully,

DANIEL GEORGE

18 East Heath Road, Hampstead, NW3