How Tony Harrison gave this lass the confidence she needed | Letters

An encouraging note from the poet to a young working-class student is remembered by Dr Chrissie Tiller. Plus a letter from Brian AllenAfter reading your moving obituary of Tony Harrison (28 September), tributes to him from Ian McMillan and others (Classics with added Yorkshire class, 28 September), and the article by Mark Lawson (‘The man who came to read the metre’: Yorkshire poet Tony Harrison was the National Theatre bard, 27 September), I’d like to add a personal posts