[to The Editor Of Tre Spectator."]
SIR,—Your correspondent, the Hon. D. F. Fortescue, calls attention to the case of Lady Carew, as furnishing a living "link with the past" of singular interest. He might,......
[to The Editor Of The "spectator."]
SIR,—Your correspondent, "C. J. L.," has omitted the most remarkable "link with the past" in his letter referring to the Macnaghten family. Sir Stewart Macnaghten, youngest son......
[to The Editor Of The "spectator."] Sir,—somewhere About...
I was a boy of ten or t welve years of age, I used to go sea-fishing with an old boat- man, whom I remember looking upon with great awe on account of his reputed age,—eighty.......
[to The Editor Op The "spectator.")
Smr–Under the docket, "Links with the Past," your corre- spondent, R. St. J. Corbet, alludes to certain fortunate recipients of the kisses of the great Duke and Disraeli.......
[to The Editor Of The "spectator."]
SIR,—In the spring of 1898 I visited in Jersey a clergyman, then ninety-five years old, who had officiated at my grand- father's funeral in 1830. In the course of conversation......
[to The Editor Of The "spectator."] Sir,—lord Leicester's...
Coke of Norfolk, as he then was, was born in 1755, the year before the beginning of the Seven Years' War.—I am, Sir, &e., C. M.......
[to The Editor Of The "spectator."] Sir,—in Explanation...
Francis Macnaghten's statement, "My father led his troop at the battle of the Boyne," my father, who often heard him say this, told us that the tenant yeomen of the......
[to The Editor Of The "spectator."] Sir,—many People Now...
can remember Lady Louisa Stuart, the last surviving daughter of the Prime Minister John, Earl of Bute. She died in 1851, and could remember John, Earl Ligonier, Minister of War......
(to Tii1 Editor Of Tim "sproutoill Sir, — Many Years Ago,...
paying one among many visits to Monsieur Guizot at Val Richer, his country house in Normandy, the conversation turned upon "links with the past," and he related to us the......
[to The Editor Of The "spectator.")
SrR,—When I was a little girl in the early " fifties " I was often told by a Miss Penelope Green, then aged about sixty, that she recollected being patted on the head by......
[to The Editor Of The "spectator.")
SIR,—The late Rev. Gilbert Wall Heathcote, Sub-Warden and Fellow of Winchester College, who was living in 192, for I remember be kept his golden wedding that year, bad, when a......
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