7 FEBRUARY 1903, Page 16

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1

Srn,—In his letter to his brother James, February 20113, 1794, Coleridge writes : "My assumed name is Silas Tomkyn Comberbacke." In my "History of Jesus College" I wrote the second name " Tomkins," and in that error I was followed by your reviewer. Your correspondent, Mr. Nutt, is mistaken in stating that the second name adopted by the poet was