Re your article (Ranking celebrity wedding-crashers, from Elijah Wood in Hobbiton to Tom Hanks everywhere, 30 October), in California after the war, one of the few things that the German writers Bertolt Brecht and Thomas Mann agreed on was the deliciousness of their fellow émigré Salka Viertel’s flourless chocolate cake. Mann was so keen on it that he crashed a wedding in Beverly Hills solely because he heard that Viertel’s cake was to be served at the reception.
Tom Dewe Mathews
London
• I had the privilege of seeing The First to Go, the play about disabled people in Nazi Germany by Nabil Shaban (Obituary, 30 October). It was a shocking experience, not least because the three actors were so unhistrionic about the atrocities visited on disabled people under that despicable regime.
Fiona Allen
Edinburgh
• I can’t remember a time when there wasn’t a letter from Keith Flett on innumerable subjects. However, the latest (4 November) is his most poignant. I’m sure all regular readers will want to send him condolences and best wishes.
Ingrid Marsh
Ipplepen, Devon
• As someone who is terrified of dogs – all dogs, big or small – the pavement etiquette I’d most like to see is people putting theirs on a very short lead when they walk past others (The ‘pavement vigilante’: why Cameron Roh is naming and shaming bad walking etiquette, 5 November).
Teresa Quayle
Culcheth, Cheshire
• Your country diary (4 November)says abundant oysters may have “inspired Caesar to contemplate his English invasion”. England did not exist then. It was a British invasion.
Colin Russell
Glasgow
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