Newstead Abbey | Dancing morals | Extreme heat | Larry the cat | Fishing for success | Leave the tuna alone One notable house you omitted to mention in your editorial on writers’ abodes ( 18 August ) is Newstead Abbey, the splendid gothic ancestral home of the greatest of the romantic poets, Lord Byron. Although subject to some later Victorian renovation, it remains “ embosomed in a happy valley ” where “ Through thy battlements … the hollow winds whistle ”. Michael Wild Princetown, Devon • Towards the end of an evening dancing at Wolverhampton Civic Hall in the 1960s, any couple closer than a chaste ballroom-dancing hold would be tapped on the shoulder by a man in the middle, guarding our morals ( Letters, 19 August ). Jennifer Macwhinnie London Continue reading...