Letter: New-found quote
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: Federico Andahazi ("The anatomy of desire", 3 June), is not the first writer to be censored for using Mateo Colon's "Oh, My America, my sweet newly-found land" as the starting point for a work of erotic literature. John Donne did so in c1633 and was refused a licence to print the poem in question, "To his Mistress Going to Bed":
O my America, my new found land
My kingdom safeliest when with one man manned
JENNY SWANN
Altrincham, Cheshire
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