Your travel feature (‘We came away awestruck’: 13 writers on Europe’s hidden treasures, from Chagall in Kent to Rome’s secret Caravaggios, 13 January) says the “beautiful” John Donne portrait is in the National Portrait Gallery. Excited by the little photograph and eulogy, I traipsed up by bus and train to find it, asked an NPG volunteer where it was, only to be told that the curator has moved said Lothian Portrait behind the scenes, unavailable to view. I informed the volunteer of my disappointment and about it being featured in the Guardian. She told me that she’d already had a few similar requests. Please notify readers that they shouldn’t try to see it, as it’s not on show.
Wendy Johnson
London
• Dixe Wills, one of your travel writers making cultural pilgrimages, walked through “squelchy fields” to get from Tonbridge station to Tudeley church. If he’d taken the 205 bus it would have got him there in nine minutes. Then he would have had time to walk across squelchy fields to the medieval church at Capel to enjoy the ancient wall paintings. It must have looked like Disneyland originally.
Then a bus into Paddock Wood where he could catch the train and be home in time for tea.
Bob Jay
Tunbridge Wells, Kent
• The second letter was amended on 21 January, changing mention of Dixe Wills from she to he.
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