Madam, - The actor Rupert Everett is wrong to say - in his interview with Michael Dwyer in last Saturday's Irish Times Magazine - that there is no statue of Oscar Wilde in England.
There is a statute by Maggi Hambling on Adelaide Street, near Trafalgar Square in London. I am amazed that Rupert Everett is not aware of it as it was quite controversial when it was unveiled in 1998.
It is called A Conversation with Oscar Wilde and depicts the head and shoulders of the playwright carved in bronze, rising out of what looks like a granite coffin. It also serves as a bench for you to sit on and share a moment with the famous wit amid the hubbub of central London.
Around the base of the monument is a line from Wilde's play Lady Windermere's Fan: "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars". - Yours, etc,
PATRICK FLYNN, Herbert Park Lane, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.