Sir, - It is likely that some readers will have been confused by the
stylistic mismatch between the two photographs illustrating the obituary of
Keith Murray (
Gazette, 11 November).
The very "traditional" cope and mitre worn by Archbishop Fisher at the
Coronation have their own interesting origin in presents from Japanese bishops
at the 1948 Lambeth Conference. Those vestments were designed and made in
Japan.
Keith Murray did design the far more characteristic copes worn by the Canons
of Westminster at the 1953 Coronation.
J. D. HEBBLETHWAITE
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