16 MARCH 1945, Page 14

WELLINGTON AND NAPOLEON

Sta,—I was interested in Mr. Harold Nicolson's Marginal Comment in your issue of March 9th, and his reference to Napoleon. He asserts "it was only men like Lord Whitworth, or the Duke of Wellington whose contacts with the Emperor were either intimate or prolonged, &c., &c." It surely is the fact that the Duke of Wellington never " contacted " the Emperor at all in a personal sense. The only occasion on whicli he fought him was at Waterloo, and although I believe it is stated that the Duke saw the Emperor through his field-glass on different occasions during the battle, that is the extent of their contact.—Yours faithfully,