Sir, - As a rider to Carolyn Swift's appreciation of the remarkable Dame Ninette de Valois (Arts, March 9th), I had the great pleasure of soliciting an introduction from her for the Lilliput edition of her memoir Come Dance With Me (re-published in 1992 and still available). I remember her still, then aged 90, mignon, bird-like, utterly beautiful, in her Putney garden flat on that bright March day, with a distinctive Irish timbre, proud of her ancestry. Time was surely away. - Yours, etc.,
Antony Farrell, Lilliput Press, Dublin 7.