Ian Thomson refers in his obituary of Nexhmije Hoxha (3 March) to the time in the 1970s when the Albanian regime fell out with China. I visited the country at that time and the rift with China was self-evident: our luggage was searched carefully at the border on entry and the discovery of Paul Scott’s The Chinese Love Pavilion caused immense concern. Explanations that it was just a novel set in India were viewed with great scepticism, and we were told we were lucky not to be arrested as spies.
Dr Richard Carter
Putney, London
• I have a greetings card with a photo of the kitchen range in the house where DH Lawrence grew up, in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire. On the back is some advice from the author, still helpful today: “I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It’s amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges or scrub the floor” (Letters, 5 March).
Harland Walshaw
Lympstone, Devon
• Don’t perpetuate the term “ultra high net worth individual” (The super-rich: another 31,000 people join the ultra-wealthy elite, 4 March). They aren’t worth more than anyone else, they just have far more assets.
Michael Peel
Axbridge, Somerset
• Many years ago my youngest sister came home from Sunday school with the line “I will make you vicious old men!” It took a while to work that one out (Letters, 5 March).
Sylvia Brown
Ottershaw, Surrey
• Boris Johnson plans to make use of paternity leave (Report, 4 March)? How will we know?
Louise Morrey
Barlow, Derbyshire
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