Madam, - I wish Richard Pine (March 17th) a long and happy life. I also wish that those who mourn him at his death be spared someone writing to tell you, within a month of his death, that his obituarist was "very wide of the mark" in attributing to him alone the honour of some distinction or other. - Yours, etc,
DONAL McMAHON, Westbrook, Saggart, Co Dublin.