24 MARCH 1894, Page 15

" LINKS WITH THE PAST."

[To THZ EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—My father, John Churchill Langdon, of Pavrook's Lodge, Chard, died in 1883. His father, John Langdon, died in 1840, and as a young man was in the habit of spending much of his time with his kinsman, John Stuckey, of Brans- combe, Devon. Mr. Stuckey, who died in 1810, was born in. 1720, and was about sixteen years old when his grandfather another John Stuckey, who was born in 1656, died.—I ams