... Someone said in your article on LSD in the issue of 19 March We would like to have LSD available for every body. The ideal situation would be to have it in the sugar so that people could buy it with their groceries. This is a most irresponsible suggestion, ignoring the fact that LSD can have a cumu lative effect, resulting in psychosis, suicide, and even death. It is totally in opposi tion ...

... I have hesitated to write be fore on such a vital elec on issue, but don't you think lat Labour has been taking an un fair advantage of the Cor er- vatives by allowing the Chan cellor to use his signature tune, 'Meet Mr Callagh n, on both radio and TV w lly- nilly. And the irony is hat the composer, partly because of the success of the tune, has now to reside in the Channel Islands. I am ...

... With regard to your statement that Sotheby's are once again considering a link up with Christie's, I wish to state cate gorically that no such negotia tions are taking place or are envisaged by either side. Peter Wilson, Sotheby Co, New Bond Street, W1 Editor: We naturally accept Mr Wilson's statement, but would emphasise that a Sotheby's spokesman had commented before publication that there ...

... Miss Marjory Middleton tells me she is about to launch a Friends of the Ballet group. Miss Middleton has been Director of the Scottish Ballet School for nearly 35 years and has been running the Scottish Ballet Club for about 20 years. Small wonder that at the New Year she received the M.B.E. in recognition of her services to ballet in Scotland. But Miss Middleton is once more facing the sad ...

... A Festival of Scotland is to be held in Cannes early next month and if the venue sounds surprising the reason is that the Festival will commemorate the 130th anniversary of the first visit there of Lord Brougham, the Scottish peer who dis covered the resort for British visitors. More than 160 Scots with interests in industry, commerce, local government, sport and tourism will attend. Mr. ...

... As your excellent magazine is a day or two late in arriving on the bookstalls in Lille, I may be the last person to reply to Miss Sautrell's letter pub lished in your 4 June edition. She should not think that France is any more en lightened on the subject of driving licences than our own country. In my own case I was the holder of a valid Swiss licence, but I was required to take a test at the ...

... I read with much more than ordinary interest the article in the 21 May issue of London Life on allergy complaints. My family are sufferers from one or other of these scourges, and I am desperately anxious to know about the very effi cient and real cure brought about by American researcher Mrs Margaret Strauss. I see her product is on the market in Britain. Is this on doctors' prescription only ...

... Billy Graham has a cheek he comes to this country to chide the much-berated youn ger generation with jibes about mini-morality and sex ual permissiveness. Yet no mention whatsoever of some of the parents of the younger generation who are busily ex ploiting these youngsters' needs and desires. Graham has completely mis calculated the tempo of Brit ain today. Moralists today are people like John ...

... Playing in Robert and Elizabeth which represents a refined, Victorian era, makes our present lack of manners all the more painfully obvious to me. Pedestrians stroll across busy streets without looking, and are furious when you nearly knock them down; people never give up their seats in public transport. What rattles me the most are the staff in cinemas who have seen the performance too many ...

... I read with some interest your article on Soho (19 March) and note that a story of Soho is being written by Geoffrey Bernard and Frank Norman. My own association dates back to 1923-25 when I attended the Ecole de Notre Dame de France in Lisle Street at which school my parents had to pay Is a week for me to learn French. I am now 55 years old and a waiter; many of my school contemporaries are ...

... I have often wondered if the viewer at home is getting a fair deal with the television services. Take, for example, the TV licence all viewers re gardless of how many chan nels they can watch on their set, must have the same licence. Why should they pay for the service of BBC-2 if they cannot, or do not, want to watch it? And is it fair to the honest public to raise the TV licence in order to ...

... With reference to David Wynne Morgan's article Britons (and their Birds) Take Over, I had the experi ence of being confronted with that splendiferous apparition. Commander Whitehead here in London. Regarding D W-M's com ments on the London look, I am moved by this experience to remark that The Com mander was turned out in a state which could only pass for British in America. There he ...