29 NOVEMBER 1913, Page 19

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

Sra,—My grandfather, who was born in 1734, as a boy of twelve stood at the roadside and watched the King's troops marching northwards before the battle of Culloden. This was related to me by my father. In my own early boyhood an old gentleman who used to visit my father told me that, being in the English chapel in Montrose with his father, he saw Dr. Samuel Johnson worshipping there while in the course of his journey through Scotland in 1773.—I am, Sir, &c.,

J. IL It.