24 NOVEMBER 1906, Page 15

COLONISATION BY WOMEN: AN IMPERIAL QUESTION.

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR.".1 SLE,•I am sorry to see by your note to my letter in the Spectator of November 17th that I failed to make my point clean It was far from my intention to maintain that women should be ashamed of wishing to be married. I wished merely to point out that convention forbids women to land in the Colonies and remain there with no other occupation than that of seeking for a husband, and, since temporary employ- ments for women in the Colonies, pending offers of marriage,

are limited, it is difficult to know how to further women's emigration to any great extent.—I am, Sir, &c.,

Wadham College, Oxford. H. F. PETERSEN. [We cannot publish any more letters on this subject. —En. Spectator.]