15 AUGUST 1952, Page 16

- Which Side of the Street ?

Sm,—I am interested to see Janus's error about Thomas Gray's colleje corrected. As an undergraduate I was taken to see from below de window of his bedroom at Peterhouse. The story is (or was) that he was terrified of fire and had fixed a rope to his bedroom window-all. At the cry of "fire " raised by his friends, he descended horridly In his nightclothes into a filled bath on the pavement.—Yours, &c. P. H. D. 0 [Janus writes: Pembroke very definitely claims Gray; it was afer he settled there for life that he wrote all his principal poems. Howevtr, I have friends in both camps, and have no desire to judge betwem them.]