The Polygon
SIR,—May I ask the help of the Spectator or of its readers in the following trouble ? One of my friends here is working on a new Czech translation of The Pickwick Club. He asked me for explanation of the following paragraph in the chapter
" ' I've come along rather, 1 can tell you,' replied Lowten, It went the half hour as I came through the Polygon. I'm here before him, though, so I don't mind.'" We were not able to find out whether the Polygon was a real place and, if so, where or whether it exists even now—on my plan of London, which is rather detailed and precise, I cannot find it, and there is also no mention in the index of streets and places—or whether it is only a fiction.
I hope that with your help we shall obtain this information. Of course I must ask to give it in a letter. I had been a reader of the Spectator many years, even after my return here from London after the war, but to my regret it comes not more since the last September for the time being. But 1 know from letters to the editor that the Spectator helped to solve many of such mysteries, and I 'hope that it will do so also in this case.—Yours faithfully, KAMIL KLEINER. Praha XIX, Komornickti 8.
Previous page
