Letter of the week
We are but dust
NEXT to the archive photograph of the corner of a drawing room in an old Shropshire mansion of the 1890s, which featured a crowded collection of china and ceramics (The way we were, October 19), you wrote: ‘The challenge of dusting this room can only be imagined.’ Having collected myself and displayed my plates and coffee cans on most surfaces, I am often challenged about dusting and invariably reply, as I heard from a National Trust curator: ‘Oh, I never dust, it would ruin the patina.’ Janice Ketley, Surrey
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