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THE EARL OF LISBURNE. tl enjoy reading Wales and on your ioth Anniversary send my congratulations and good wishes. LISBURNE. HERBERT READ. I am glad to hear that Wales has reached its tenth anniversary. A regional journal like yours stimulates art and literature at its grass roots, and does far more to produce a vital culture than periodicals published in a metropolis like London. HERBERT READ. BRIAN Vesey-Fitzgerald, late Editor of the Field," famous naturalist and broadcaster. Devonshire Club, St. James's, S.W.i. My Dear Keidrych, Birthdays and anniversaries of all sorts leave me quite unmoved. It was evident with the first number of Wales that she had come to stay (magazines, like ships, are female, and for the same reason), and it seemed evident to me that the vitality in that first number would ensure a long and fertile life. What's ten years ? Nothing at all to what's coming. Nothing at all. So, really, one can only wish you the old wish-" Many happy returns of this day "-and congratu- late you on a remarkable achievement that heralds a still more remarkable future. Yours sincerely, BRIAN Vesey-Fitzgerald. PS. I suppose you could not persuade a Welsh M.P. or two to read and digest Wales ? LL. WYN GRIFFITH, O.B.E., Editor of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. The Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, for the encouragement of the Art, Literature, and Science of Wales Founded 175 1. Dear Keidrych, Ten years of faith adventure, promise, performance a fine record, and you ought to be proud of it. You have pleased me, provoked me, riled me and educated me. What more could I ask of an editor? Nothing, except another ten years of it. Yours, WYN GRIFFITH. DAVID RAYMOND, Foreign Editor and Welsh Columnist, Reynolds News." Pioneer House, Wicklow Street, Gray's Inn Road, London, W.C.I. Apathy, complacency and a disturbing lack of self-respect-these are the vampires that would suck Wales dry of its life-blood were it not for the few guardians that we have to ward them off and keep our small nation from succumb- ing totally to a sleep from which there is no awakening. I count Wales, pro- vocative, stimulating Wales, as one such guardian; and if it irritates seme people-well, I take that as evidence that it is doing its job. Carry on, Wales. All the best. DAVID RAYMOND.