Sir,—When examining problems facing the National Library and Museum (HI 23.3, May/June 2015, Platform) it never occurred to me, or to those with whom I spoke, that culchies were to blame. All is revealed, however, in Felix M. Larkin’s Platform piece (HI 24.1, Jan./Feb. 2016). The Museum and Library, as ‘institutions of the Pale’, are, ... Read more
