15 MAY 1947, Page 17

HARVARD AND WREN Snt,—Like Janus, I am glad that opposition

to the power station is growing, but I would not have the withers of our American cousins wrung concerning John Harvard. He had no associations with Bankside: the place of his birth was where is now the railway arch east of Southwark Cathedral. There is a mythology about Wren. He did not die at Hampton Court, though a tablet in the " Old Court House" there says he did ; his end came in St. James's Street. The inscription on Bankside stating he lived there has no foundation in fact.—Yours faithfully,