Christopher Howse’s article on Evelyn Waugh’s feud with the 1930s editor of The Tablet, Ernest Oldmeadow, made entertaining reading (“Pens at dawn”, August 22). He might have quoted from Waugh’s biography of Ronald Knox, where Waugh described Oldmeadow as “a man of meagre attainments and deplorable manners, under whom the paper became petty in its interests and low in tone”. Waugh was not a man to be crossed lightly. While at Oxford, he was rebuked for