Given King Charles III’s welcome support for research into the monarchy’s historical links to the slave trade (Report, 6 April), he might consider spending £20,400 on keeping the manuscript of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s 1792 anti-slavery poem in this country (Report, 17 March) and donating it to Liverpool’s International Slavery Museum. He could take the money out of the £2m that he and his mother apparently made from the sale of gifted horses (Report, 7 April).
Colin Watts
Liverpool
• It’s worth visiting Cotton Famine Road on Rooley Moor, Rochdale. It was constructed by cotton workers during the American civil war, when no cotton was imported into Lancashire, so there was no work to be had. It is a lasting memorial.
Kaye McGann
Standlake, Oxfordshire
