20 JANUARY 1923, Page 11

[To the Editor of the SpEcrwron.] Sin,—When my cousin, Lord

Eversley, was First Commis- sioner of Works he proposed (and I believe nearly succeeded in carrying) a scheme for forming a cloister, or cloisters, and removing thereto the most inappropriate (artistically and architecturally speaking) monuments which at present— however honourable in themselves—disfigure the interior of the Abbey. Surely his scheme ought not to be forgotten— as it provides at once for the restoration of the exterior of the Abbey to its original beauty and for a suitable and spacious area in which may be contemplated the dignified—in some cases the stupendous—memorials of the mighty dead.—

I am, Sir, &c., CAREW MILDMAY. The Athenaeum, Pall Mall, S.W.1.