LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
QUEEN ALEXANDRA AND SIR JAMES PAGET. [To ME EDITOR or ms " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—At a time when the Queen-Mother is much in on thoughts, the following quotation from Sir James Paget's letters, dated Sandringham, December 30th, 1871, will be read with interest. It was when the late King, then Prince of Wales, had typhoid, and Sir James Paget was called in con- sultation over a surgical feature of the case. He wrote home to his wife :—" The Princess is the sweetest nurse you ever saw (for you used not to look in the glass when I was ill). She would do everything if she were allowed, and all with the gentlest and most loving ways. And the Prince's patience and courtesy make me very ashamed of my recollections of
my illnesses, especially the last."-1 am, Sir, &c., Y.
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