Lord Granville Leveson-Gower once said that ' the not receiving of letters ought to be added to the list of tortures to which the, unrighteous are consigned in the next world.' He could have added the not reading of them. too.
JILL BALCON and RONALD EYRE read a selection, made by BRIAN HILL , of notes and letters from mainly nineteenth-century writers in their various private moods.
Produced by Russell Harty