19 FEBRUARY 1921, Page 15

EDMUND GIBSON : BISHOP OF LINCOLN.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—As I am engaged in a special study of Edmund Gibson, successively Bishop of Lincoln (1716-23) and London (1723-48), I should be greatly obliged if any of your readers could give me any information as to the whereabouts of certain letters and papers which were discovered some fifteen years ago by Canon Sparrow Simpson, of St. Paul's, and passed from the Dean and Chapter into the possession of General Dalton, Mr. C. J. Hill, and Mr. E. Poore, the Bishop's descendants. I have been favoured with access to all the materials in the possession of the two former, but cannot discover any trace of those of Mr. Poore.