19 APRIL 1946, Page 16

If OR F

11Sta,—Could one of your more erudite readers inform me as to the curious usage of writing certain names with a small ff instead of a'• capital letter? I have always understood that it is based on a mis-s apprehension of the Elizabethan writing, which has somewhat the appear-; ance of a double letter, but there is surely some ruling on the matter.-