Sir, While re-reading a biography by Duff Hart-Davis of one of your most famous foreign correspondents, Peter Fleming, I was stuck by the total decline of the pipe. Fleming, like my father and many others of that generation, had a pipe almost permanently in his mouth. We all know why smoking is now frowned upon, but cigarettes and cigars are still around. I have not seen a pipe in years.
John Kirkaldy
Exeter