Aphrodisiacs

Sir: What can Beverley Nichols mean 'poor ad Norman Douglas'? (Notebook, December 8.) Poor old Beverley Nichols, I'd say. Norman Douglas didn't in "his last disreputable days"......

Bits Of Fitz

Sir: The peg on which Benny Green hung his 'Talking of Books' article in Your issue of December I was our new publication Bits of Paradise. Mr Green occupied two columns with a......

U And Non-u

From Sir lain Moncreiffe of That Ilk Sir: I was consulted by my friend Nancy Milford before she wrote her controversial U and non-U article; and Pointed out that 'mirror'......

Chilean Refugees

Sir: Your leader on Chile (December 8) is as intemperate as it is inaccurate. (The President of the Chilean Junta is General (not Admiral) Pinochet (not Pinrochet).) If, like......

Tribute

Sir: You published in June 1972 a letter in which I supported (but, I hope. with more charity) the complaint of another correspondent about the element of bad-tempered bossiness......

Errata

Sir: The omission of a short sentence in my review made utter nonsense of what followed. What I said was, 'Oliver Cromwell had no such illusions (i.e. as Charles I). On the......