Sir, – Patrick Logue's "Confessions of a lifelong hoarder" (June 17th) reminded me of John D Sheridan's poem Timothy Dan, which lists the many wonderfully useless but precious things that a little boy had in his pockets. The poem finishes: "You'd never believe that the smallest of boys could carry so much in his wee corduroys." Perhaps Patrick Logue could trace his hoarding back to his boyhood days when, like Timothy Dan, he was, according to Sheridan, "a very rich man, with all of his wealth in his pockets". – Yours, etc,
CORMAC MEEHAN,
Bundoran,
Co Donegal.