Indications of approval of The Spectator not infrequently reach this
office, nicely interspaced with the not infrequent criticisms. As a rule, they are simply acknowledged privately, but one has just come into my hands which I think there is no impropriety in repro- ducing. " This is a little note of gratitude for all the help interest The Spectator has given us in a special case for ten ye writes a Sister in a Midland hospital. " One of our surgeons bee a patient with us. We discovered he liked The Spectator, an this is taken by the recreation club, it was taken to him week. As he became unable to hold it, I went to help, and we fo it best for me to read aloud ; when he became blind this was only way. Each Thursday for nine years we followed the s ritual—=News of the Week, ' Janus,' then a list of articles, from which he chose. Often we covered nearly everything. mental faculties were unimpaired. On Thursday, April 16th, I as usual, and a little was read, but for the last time, as the w journey ended that night. He often expressed his appreciatio your paper, and of ' Janus,' and so I would like you to know. tribute so moving stirs two emotions—satisfaction, of course, satisfaction tempered, very genuinely, by the wish that we who engaged in making The Spectator could make it more worth such appreciation.
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