SIR – I appreciate that not everyone can afford to pay for private dentistry but, contrary to many myths, it isn’t that expensive, and is clearly preferable to DIY dentistry (“Elderly fear having to resort to ‘DIY dentistry’”, report, December 26).
In the pre-dawn hours of April 27, 1865, the steamboat Sultana departed Memphis and was heading north on the Mississippi River, overcrowded with Union Army soldiers freed from prisoner of war camps, when its boilers exploded, setting the vessel on fire.