28 JANUARY 1922, Page 15

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia„—In your issue

of December 31st (which reaches me some- what late) I was much interested in the letter from " J. G. B." It seems a far cry from the reign of Elizabeth to that of George III. Yet Samuel Pepys' father, born in 1601 as a subject of the queen, had a grandson, John Jackson, nephew and heir of the diarist, who died in 1773 a subject of George III.—I am,