30 JULY 1921, Page 15

AXEL FERSEN'S UNPUBLISHED PAPERS. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "

SPECTATOR.") can assure Mr. Andrew de Ternant, of Brixton, that the printed books which he is so good as to mention in your issue of July 23rd (in reply to a query of mine addressed to those members of Western-European aristocratic society who read your pages) have nothing whatever to do with the interesting question of the whereabouts of certain unpublished papers formerly belonging to Count Axel Fersen. The books which he names with some pragmatic unction have long been known by every university-bred writer upon the history of France during the last two hundred years, and therefore to—Your obedient