The letter was typed on Faber and Faber headed paper, indicating it was written at the publishing house where Eliot was employed as editor.

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Mr Johnson, who now lives in the US, said although there was nothing in the letter that Dr Martin had not said at their meeting, he had not been prepared for him "to be quite so forthright and honest with me on letter-headed paper".

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He said "not one piece of headed letter paper" would be wasted in the name change.

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Paper-folding enthusiasts gathered at the National Railway Museum in York to create a train of 1, 550 wagons, headed by a paper model of Stephenson's Rocket.

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There are hopeful routes out of this mess, and the paper makes several clear-headed suggestions for how to get there.

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Mrs Gandhi's Congress party, headed by her daughter-in-law Sonia Gandhi, is in power in India at the moment and the paper suggests distributors may not be willing to antagonise it.

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