26 JULY 1963, Page 12

OLD AGE SIR,—May I, through the courtesy of your columns,

express my warmest thanks and deepest appreciation to all your readers who have responded so generously and sympathetically to my letter in your issue of July 12.

As you are aware, sir, my letter was not intended to be in any sense at all a personal appeal, but rather was designed to give a concrete and factual example of how thousands of elderly people are existing in Great Britain. I trust that in some measure it may have helped to make the public realise the sorry state of the elderly poor in general. I do, however, thank most sincerely and wholeheartedly all those kind people who have written to me through