Amis but not a Ms? Something’s amiss

Kingsley Amis, a former member of the Garrick Club, who died in 1995. Photograph: S. Heydinger/taken from picture library

You say the Garrick Club “counts … Sir Kingsley Amis among its members” (Garrick could admit women after barrister U-turns on club rules, 16 September). It does seem a tad unfair that the club can hold out a welcome to a man who’s been dead for nearly 28 years, while shutting the door to any living woman.
Nigel Gann
Lichfield, Staffordshire

• Grace Dent’s feature (‘It’s the great leveller, uniting people across social classes’: Grace Dent on Britain’s love affair with cheese, 16 September) brought back so many memories. As a child, tea at my grandparents’ farm always included apple pie eaten with a large slice of cheddar cheese. Any visitors who looked perplexed were told: “Apple pie without the cheese is like a kiss without the squeeze.”
Sue Barton
Sessay, North Yorkshire