POINTS FROM LETTERS
SIX YEARS OUT OF WORK AND How I HAVE FARED.
[We are anxious to take this opportunity of thanking those kind friends who have come forward with tokens of kindness, which they have asked us to send on to the writer of the above article (March 9th). They wish to remain anonymous, and we can only say " Thank you " on behalf of the Spectator. It should be understood, however, that we do not wish to serve as a channel of charity, much as we appreciate the value of the " personal " relation.—En. Spectator.] " CARDINAL WOLSEY AND THE KINGFISHER."
I feel greatly indebted to Mr. Malcolm for his very kind and most courteous correction in your issue of March 2nd, and I trust he will accept my sincere apologies and thanks. His ballad closely fitted the story I heard last year with much interest at Knole of its presentation to Henry VIII. by Archbishop Cranmer in 1589, and which I verified afterwards by a most charming book, Knole and the Sack-Mlles, and as I could not find in an encyclopaedia to which I referred any men- tion of a gift of a similar character having been made to the " burly monarch." by Cardinal Wolsey, perhaps my mistake was excusable. It is more than fifty years smee I visited Hampton Court and I had quite forgotten its history.— HENRY DIGGES., 9 Eglinton Road, Donnybrook, Dublin.
CORRESPONDENCE OF BEDDOES.
I am revising for publication a study of the poet, Thomas Lovell Beddoes, written some years ago and kept by me because I hoped to discover further material. May I, therefore; trespass on your kindness to ask, in particular, whether any letters of Beddoes, other than those printed by Kelsall and Gosse, are known by your readers to exist ? The late Professor F. Y. Edgeworth told me there were a few letters in the pos- session of relatives, but he was unable at that time to obtain access to them ; and the valuable correspondence between Beddoes and his college friend John G. H. Bourne (afterwards Chief Justice of Newfoundland) has presumably disappeared. If these letters are still extant I should be very grateful for any information that might lead me to them.—C. CoII.EER Awsorr, King's College, Aberdeen.
ENGLISH UNDEFILED.
In connexion with" English Undefiled," I note on p. 375 of the last Spectator Literary Supplement, col. 2, last line but four, the expression, " he was issued with shot," &c.—Is there any literary authority for " to be issued with " or is the phrase purely supplementary 7—A. R. Boxes, Hotel Beau Rivage, St. Raphael (Var), France.
THE WORKS OF DONNE.
I admire your reviewer's reply to the correspondent who questioned his ascription of " astonishing pride ' to Donne (March 9th). Self-abasement and spiritual pride are closely related. Somebody said to Diogenes : " I can see your pride through the holes in your coat."—THOMAS CARR, Kemal Rise, N.W.10.
THE ROMAN COLLAR.
In connexion with the use of the word Catholic desired by the Rev. H. L. Ford, I venture to record the history of this invention of Pope Pius IX., who took the Oratorians' Redemptorist collar and turned it front to back for use by his secular clergy. In my youth it was a " mark of the Beast," yet it has been adopted by the High Church Party and is now worn by Nonconformist clergy (who also call themselves Catholic). So by common use it has ceased to have any sectarian import. Would not Mr. Ford's interpretation bring the word Catholic into similar insignificance ?--SEVEN Hnia.
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