12 JANUARY 1901, Page 14

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR, —In your interesting article,

Link with the Past," you speak of the late Mr. Spencer Walpole as the great-grand- son of Sir Robert Walpole. May I be allowed to point out that Sir Robert Walpole had no great-grandsons, and that Mr. Spencer Walpole was his great-grandnephew, being descended from the Premier's brother Horatio P—I am, Sir,