11 FEBRUARY 1922, Page 14

LINKS WITH THE PAST.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' &a,—The following link with the past, recorded by a earre- spondent to the Times in July, 1910, seems even more remark- able than the instances recently related in the Spectator:— " You may perhaps think it worth recording that my father (as a boy) knew an old gentleman who as a boy _had danced with an old lady who as a little girl had danced with Charles 1.1. There were, therefore, only two lives between my father (born 1815, died 1899) and Charles II."—I am, Sir, Ac.,

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