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I used to be astounded by Viv Groskop’s remark that “Most people didn’t own cameras” within the Nineteen Seventies (‘It looked stunning on Joanna Lumley!’, 25 August). This might need been true within the early twentieth century, however even my mom, born in 1916, had her trustworthy Box Brownie, with which she took pictures of household and buddies within the 40s and 50s, and later I used to be taking slides on an Agfa Silette 35mm within the Nineteen Sixties.
Marie Paterson
Nuneaton, Warwickshire

Re your editorial on writers’ abodes (18 August) and Michael Wild’s letter (20 August), I ought to prefer to level out {that a} cottage on the Newstead Abbey property was the house of the bestselling novelist Dorothy Whipple for a number of years within the Thirties, and is the setting for her 1939 novel, The Priory.
Jeremy Hilton
Bridport, Dorset

“Nothing can beat stepping inside the world of a writer by staying in their home,” says Dr David Rudrum (Letters, 25 August). One factor can: studying their work.
Neil Corcoran
Emeritus professor of English literature, University of Liverpool

Looking on the names of letter writers on 24 August – Bert Love on hope and positivity and Brian Fish speaking about meals requirements – it appears to me that it’s best to solely print letters from individuals with applicable names.
Alan Wordsworth
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

TV presenters usually say there’s a “risk” of rain within the UK. After a number of weeks of Saharan warmth and drought, maybe they need to begin saying there’s “hope” of rain.
Dan Hartley
Solihull, West Midlands