Unseasonable Wit
Sir: In past years Lloyd's cheques arrived with Names between April and early July (if they arrived at all) — a time when no game bird is in season. So what and where was that......
The Will Of The Living
Sir: Ludovic Kennedy mischievously implies in his article ('What would they have done?', 26 September) that support for euthanasia has come about mainly in the last 20 years,......
Sheer Ignorance
Sir: In his review of Julian Critchley's book (Books, 19 September), Alan Clark wrote: 'critical mass' — a nice analogy from physics (or is it astronomy?) for something that is......
Daily Doses
Sir: I was very interested to learn from the review of West Downs: A Portrait of an English Prep School (Books, 26 September) that the period spent at Stagenhoe Park from......
Knight In Error
Sir: Another interpretation of the Mrs Simpson aide memoire incident (`The uncivilised society', 3 October) is that she left it behind intentionally, in the belief that its......
Greenmantle
Sir: Even if Victorian pianos never sported trousers (Letters, 5 September), all is not lost on the musical clothing front. Benen- den School's grand piano wears a green quilted......
Slow Reader, Fast Driver
Sir: This is in reference to Nigel Nicolson's Piece in your 1 August issue (I am a slow reader!). In it he speaks of his dream of owning an open-top Mercedes. 'But I would look......
Pissed Off
Sir: I followed Mary Killen's advice on how to deal with builders' merchants (Your problems solved, 10 October) and hope to be out of hospital quite soon. The brief conversation......
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