I loved the photo essay (10 January) on Svalbard church in Longyearbyen. But it’s not the world’s most northerly parish. That honour goes to a church in the diocese of the Arctic: Grise Fiord, Nunavut, Canada at 82N. Longyearbyen is only at 78N. The church alas was destroyed by fire in 2018, but here it is pre-fire.
Anne Willis
Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire
• In 1946, my father received a letter addressed to “Professor Marrow, Croxley Green, near London”. It had been dictated by a lady newly released from Belsen concentration camp, whose son we had been looking after. The message inside simply read: “I live and am well, Amelie” (Letters, 9 January).
Bridget Marrow
Pinner, London
• My mother, now 83, still remembers the letter she got as a young woman addressed to “The beautiful Clare, Cavendish Square”.
Louisa Killpack
Newport, Isle of Wight
• Philip Clarke (Letters, 7 January) reminds me of what we used to call the Midland General B6 bus from Ilkeston to Mansfield, because of the many times the driver had to stop and let me out to “be sick”.
Penny Aldred
London
• Recent correspondence (Letters, 7 January) about the art of using science reminded me of a statement by Yogi Berra: “In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.”
Hal Dunkelman
Cote, Oxfordshire
• Scrolling or eating Haribo (9 January)? I hadn’t realised that they were alternatives.
Pete Bibby
Sheffield
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