THE LATE SIR REDVERS BULLER'S GHOST STORY. Cro THE EDITOR
OP THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I read with ranch interest in the Spectator of March 8tk the account of Lady Ritchie's ghost story. It reminded me so curiously of the incident in the life of my husband, Sir Redvers Buller, that I venture to send you the following particulars. Some time after the Franco-German War of 1870 Sir Redvera (then Captain Buller) left England to visit the battlefields, and on arriving at the town of — gave directions that his letters ehould not be forwarded, and started on his tour of inspection. After he had been away some days, he awoke suddenly one night, thinking he saw Lord Wolseley (then Sir Garnet), and that he heard hint say "I wonder where that fellow Buller is. I can't think why he has not answered my letter." This so impressed him that he returned at once to the town of where he found a letter awaiting him from Lord Wolseley,
saying that he must return to London immediately, as an expedition against the Ashantees was imminent. I thought possibly that some of your readers might be interested in what
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