12 NOVEMBER 1927, Page 16

THOMAS RAIKES

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,---I am engaged upon a new. edition of the Journal of Thomas_RUikos (1777-1848); the -banker and dandy, the friend' of Brummell and the correspondent of Wellington, which was published in 1856-7.

I crave the hospitality of your columns to allow me to ask- if any of your readers can tell me of the whereabouts of the manuscript of the Journal, and of any -unpublished letters'