From Jeremy Marchant, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK
You say a 21st-century Voltaire might think: “I disapprove of what you eat, but I will defend to the death your right to eat it.” (Leader, 16 February). Maybe, but the line this is based on first appears in (1906) by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, written under the pseudonym of S. G. Tallentyre, and is intended as a summary of Voltaire's beliefs.
