WHAT HAPPENED AT VERSAILLES?
am quite amazed to find this ancient and temporarily successful hoax taken seriously at this date. It was originally con- cocted by the two ladies as a 'leg-pull' to see just how much the credulous would believe, and the story grew with the telling as Professor Flew so clearly points out. The secret that it was a hoax was preserved till the last illness of the survivor of the two friends. Unfortu- nately I did not cut out the obituary notice, but I have the clearest recollection of her con- fession that the whole story was a hoax, and a search among the tiles of, e.g., the Dail■ Telegraph about the date of the death of the second lady, Miss Moberley, I believe would reveal a half-column or thereabouts on the subject.—Yours faithfully,
WALTER Nt WIGFII II)
Headmaster
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