7 AUGUST 1936, Page 22

DAME ELIZABETH WORDSWORM [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] -

SIR,—I have been . asked by the Council Of Lady Margaret Hall to write a memoir of Dame Elilabeth Wordsworth, the first principal of the Hall. Her family haS'with great generosity put at my disposal a large collection Of letters, papers and diaries, and has given me 'much help; and friends and members of the Hall have alio sent letters and reminiscences. I Shall be Most grateful fot the use Of any further letters or information of which-I dm ignorant, and I will copy and return very quickly any papers which your readers are kind enough