WRONG ERUPTION

In his article “So long Sloanes” (July/ August) Graham Stewart wrote that 1816 was known as “the year without a summer” because of the eruption of Krakatoa.

It was the eruption of Tambora, about 900 miles east of Krakatoa, in 1815 that caused the weather disruption in 1816. Krakatoa did not erupt until 1883. Linda Beskeen redruth, cornwall