There are other metrics for measuring letter writing success. I may not have had as many letters published as the Big Four (Letters, 8 June), but I bet none of them have had a letter published in the Review and illustrated by cartoonist Tom Gauld. No statue required.
Maggie Johnston
St Albans, Hertfordshire
Jeanette Hamilton asks: “Do women make no epistolary contributions to the Guardian?” I do try, but I don’t need a statue: featuring on the fourth plinth in Antony Gormley’s One and Other was quite enough.
Margaret Squires
St Andrews, Fife
While definitely a second stringer in terms of epistolary publication, I can sympathise with Fr Alec Mitchell and his ageing pen. It must be at least 12 months since my last appearance on the letters page. Not that I have written that often. There are limits to the ways one can proclaim the “worst government ever” without repetition. It all gets a bit jaded the older I get.
Roy Boffy
Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands
The ideal centrepiece to the four statues of our favourite letters page contributors would be a pile of 35mm film canisters.
Alan Wilkinson
St Albans, Hertfordshire
I’m not sure about letter writers, but could we have statues of Marina Hyde and John Crace somewhere, say, in Downing Street?
David Prothero
Harlington, Bedfordshire