30 NOVEMBER 1872, Page 14

THOMAS CHAUCER.

[To THIS EDITOR OF THII "SPEOTJTOR.1 SIR,—In your interesting article on " Ewelme," in the Spectata of November 16, your writer repeated and enlarged on the old skew of Thomas Chaucer being the son of our great poet, Geoffrey Chaucer. Allow me to say that there is not one scrap of evidence- that the two men were related to each other in any way ; and that there is strong presumptive evidence that Thomas was not