Index Of Civilisation
Index of civilisation Sir: I am happy to say that Beryl Bainbridge is wrong about her native Liverpool (Diary, 23 February). I know of at least three secondhand bookshops in the......
Budd's Books
Budd's books Sir: It is not true, as Beryl Bainbridge suggests (Diary, 23 February), that there were never any secondhand bookshops in Birmingham. In the late 1940s, at least,......
In A Cool Climate
In a cool climate Sir: It is not reasonable of Wilfred De'Ath to reinforce his loathing for mass murderer Dennis Nilsen (Books, 23 February) with a personal aversion to the......
Chesterton And The Jews
Chesterton and the Jews Sir: P. J. Kavanagh and Rhoda Koenig (Postcript, 9 February; Letters, 2 March) are both partly right about Chesterton and the Jews. Chesterton began his......
Out Of Context
Out of context Sir: May I have the courtesy of your columns to point out that the selected extracts from my book (Dear Church, What's the Point?) quoted in Auberon Waugh's......
Artistic Bark
Artistic bark Sir: I appreciate Rodney Milnes's image of the arts ('Neatly ringed', 16 February) as a doomed forest all the more because I came across 'the old German laws for......
Peter Fleetwood-hesketh
Peter Fleetwood-Hesketh Sir: May I correct some errors written by Gavin Stamp (Notes, 23 February) about my brother, Peter Fleetwood-Hesketh? (1) Peter was not patron of the......
White Tie
White tie I may well once have mentioned tO someone that there had been one single week in my life, in 1948, when I could recall having had to wear white tie and tails (but not......
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