A Bonn Diary

Sir: In your 23 August issue you had a letter from Mr W. E. Hall, 14 Park Hill Road, Birmingham 17, regarding the 'Eipick - to keep boiling eggs from cracking while being......

Mies Van Der Rohe

Sir: May I be allowed to correct the state- ment made by Stephen Gardiner in his article (30 August) on Mies van der Rohe. that the patterning of concrete with wooden shuttering......

Play The Game!

Sir: I am told by friends more experienced in the literary world than I that it is poor form for an author or anyone connected with him to reply to a review. I really must......

Great Scot

Sir: I am surprised no one has taken to task Mr Barklam (Letters, 30 August) for not only perpetuating the canard that Haldane remarked that Germany was his spiritual home, but......

Team Spirit Sir: I Would Be Glad If You Would

allow me to correct two distortions which crept into Bill Grundy's article (30 August) on the Sun via, it seems, the UK Press Gazette. The concern at the moment is not so much......

To Travel Hopefully ...

Sir: One hesitates to contradict such an illustrious polymath as Sir Denis Brogan (6 September), but Sydney Smith did not say of the Scilly Islanders that they lived by taking......

New House Of The Dead Sir: Mr R. I. Close

(Letters, 6 September) dares me to answer his 'challenge' to my facts. The task is not as difficult as he seems to believe. First, he completely distorts the text of my article.......