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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: Tom Lubbock is certainly at liberty to hate Maggi Hambling's monument A Conversation with Oscar Wilde, but calling for it to be got rid of is a pose too far ("It's got to go", 1 December). Of course, Oscar in death is no stranger to criticism. The Jacob Epstein tomb at Pere Lachaise in Paris was the source of heated controversy at the time. Now it is a centre of what can without exaggeration be called pilgrimage. I suspect that the Hambling monument will soon become so too, no matter how much the Lubbock-rallied philistines harrumph.
JONATHAN FRYER
London E3
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