12 DECEMBER 1952, Page 20

SIR,—In my letter on this subject in last week's issue

of the Spectator, I made a small slip. Referring to the bequest of £5,000 over which G. B. S.'s mother had a power of appointment, I said that it was made by her father. This was a mistake. He was a rapscallion squire straight out of the pages of Cherie.. Lever and Samuel Lover, and was more likely to need money than to leave any. The bequest was made by Mrs. Shaw's grandfather, an altogether different sort of man, made in a far finer mould.—Yours faithfully,

Honey Ditches, Seaton, Devon.

ST. JOHN ERVINE.