24 NOVEMBER 1944, Page 4

Today's query. In the fragment , of autobiography by Sir Arthur

Quiller Couch which the Cambridge University Press is publishing this week, Q mentions that, visiting London as a boy, he and his father " put up at Anderton's Hotel in Fleet Street, much frequented in those days by the Cornish." Why was it frequented by the Cornish? Was the original Anderton a Cornishman? Or did the first Cornish guest like it so well that he recommended it to his compatriots, and they to theirs, and so on, till a firm habit was formed? It doesn't matter, of course, and wouldn't even if Ander- ton's Hotel still existed. Still, I should like to know.