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Sir: As an appreciative new Spectator reader (generous sister's birthday present) I send the following vignette, circa 1892. I am re-reading my long-ago friend Dame Katherine Furse's autobiography Hearts and Pomegranates (1940). When her mother Mrs John Addington Symonds wished to find a suitable school to send her daughter to from Davos she 'turned to The Spectator, in which she had complete faith'.
Dame Katherine writes (chapter ten):
Its editor was St Loe Strachey and he was a first cousin of ours and a friend of the family. It was said that the subscribers to The Spectator were mostly clergymen living in country villages and that the paper must, therefore, be respectable and its advertise- ments trustworthy.
Through the Spectator advertisement a suitable school was found in Lausanne (Mont Fleuri run by a Miss Wills).
Joan Butler
7 Clarence Square, Brighton
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