13 JANUARY 1917, Page 13

THE LATE E. A. ABBEY, R.A.

[To THE EDITOR. or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Having been invited by Mrs. Abbey to write a. memoir of the late E. A. Abbey, R.A., may I ask such of your readers as have letters from that artist, and are willing to lend them for possible publication, to send them to me at Chelsea Lodge, 42 Tito Street, London, S.W., where they will be carefully handled, copied, and quickly returned ?—I am, Sir, &c., E. V. LUCAS.