Fr Michael Paul Gallagher SJ gives a timely reminder of the character and achievements of Pope Paul VI (“Sensitive herald of modernity”, 18 October). May I amplify his brief mention of the “Anglican scholar George Prestige”? The Revd Dr G.L. Prestige (actually known as Leonard, rather than George) was editor of the Church Times (1941-47), acting general secretary of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Council on Foreign Relations (1949-1950) and later a canon of St Paul’s Cathedral. He was one of a number of Anglican theologians who made contact with Archbishop Montini in the late 1940s and early 1950s with a view to finding some common ground for discussion. These unofficial, almost clandestine, contacts are dealt with in Peter Hebblethwaite’s monumen