Double Delights

Sir: Gavin Stamp's delightful essay on the revival of the tram in urban transport (Not motoring, 7 October) very neatly captures the pleasure of riding on the stately vehi- cles......

Resorting To Crime

Sir: I am a recent convert to your magazine. So complete has been my conversion that I obstruct railways to obtain a copy. Few outlets stock The Spectator in Not- tingham. The......

A Special Relationship

Sir: As an adoptive mother of two, I was appalled at the last sentence of Charlotte Roe's article on adoption. (`Adoption is never simple', 7 October). Speaking, I am sure, for......

Eheu Cads .

Sir: It is handsome of Mr Mortimer to write about Harrow, as he did in his review of Sir John Betjeman's letters (Books, 7 Octo- ber), being an old Harrovian himself, and it is......

Of Hockets And Coprophiliacs

Sir: Richard Littlejohn's lively account of `Panic' at the Proms (Diary, 23 September) reminds me of my very old friend Ethelred, abbot of Rievaulx 1140), who poured tor- rents......

Annoyingly Outmoded

Sir: In the same article (Portrait of the week, 14 October) you refer to Mrs Thomas Shep- hard and Mrs Peter Bottomley. Why do you persist in this out of date practice? You are......