7 AUGUST 1964, Page 13

MISQUOTATION

SIR,-1 regret to see in last week's. Spectator that Leslie Adrian has transferred to Oscar Wilde—and spoiled—the best of American jokes: `Good Ameri- cans when they die go to Paris,' This was said by Tom Appleton, 'the wittiest of men.' (See Oliver Wendell Holmes's The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table.)

Reform Club, SW I

DENIS BROGAN