Stephanie Spiteri's feature 'A pioneer of Maltese art history' (The Sunday Times, May 9) was interesting, but it contained one or two inaccuracies which I cannot ignore.

Ms Spiteri wrote: "In the early 1920s Giuseppe Calleja and the young Bonello both wrote about art in Malta Letteraria, a monthly devoted to literature, arts and sciences."

This could not have been, for the simple reason that Malta Letteraria was not published in the early 1920s - it just did not exist!

The original series of Malta Letteraria ran from 1904 to 1914. The first 10 volumes (1904-1913) were edited by Arturo Mercieca and the eleventh (1914) by Dr Enrico Mizzi.

In 1926, Malta Letteraria was resuscitated as a nuova serie, which ran until 1939 and was edited by my late father, Giovanni Curmi as a "rassegna mensile di cultura". In my opinion, 1926 is not "early" but "mid- to late" 1920s.

Besides, Ms Spiteri had written that Mr Calleja died in 1915. So, it is very likely that his contributions to Malta Letteraria appeared in the original series, well before the 1920s, and "the young Bonello" must have been really young, even in 1914.

Ms Spiteri continued that Malta Letteraria "was issued by La Giovine Malta" - which makes it more likely that Mr Calleja's contributions, at least, appeared in the original, pre-1920s, series, as my father issued the 1926-1939 series of Malta Letteraria independently.