Re “A moment that changed me” (10 May), Alison Hitchcock’s letters to her friend Brian after he’d been diagnosed with cancer mirror my own experience. In 2016, I wrote to my cousin Shirley, 82, an English graduate who was in hospital, hoping that her daughter would read my letter out to her. Shirley recovered and began to reply. I continued to write fortnightly and am now approaching letter number 195. This correspondence has given us both a great deal of pleasure – and has certainly improved my grammar.
Tom Whitehead
Kendal, Cumbria
• The “feudal” system of leaseholds is not to be abolished, announces Downing Street (Report, 10 May) – five days after the coronation of a major landlord. Coincidence, obviously.
David Duell
Durham
• Re pet names (Letters, 10 May), my parents had friends whose cat was named Caldybus. Odd to hear them calling this name when the bus to Caldy, a village along the road from where we lived in the Wirral peninsula, would sail past hourly.
Alison Leighton
Stony Stratford, Buckinghamshire
• Letterboxes are positioned near the floor (Letters, 10 May) so that even the tiniest pooch can join in the exciting game of waiting in silence, ready to leap forward in snarling fury as unsuspecting fingers attempt to push a pamphlet through the opening.
Peter Waterson
Bishopbriggs, East Dunbartonshire
• Breakfast pie (Letters, 10 May) has been sold by Gay’s Creamery in Dawlish for at least 25 years.
Brian Hirst
Exeter
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