12 FEBRUARY 1927, Page 18

LINKS WITH THE PAST [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

STR,—In looking through some old letters I came on one from my grandfather, written in 1878, when he was 89. In it he says that when he was a young man, an old man of 101 years of age told him he had seen his great-great-grandmother, 107 years of age, and she had seen her great-great-grandfather, Henry Jenkins, who died at the age of 169 [sic] and who, when a lad, had carried arrows to the Battle of Flodden Field in 1513. Thus only three lives lie between the Battle of Flodden and me—a space of 414 years.—I am, Sir, &c.,

M. L.