THE PAGE MEMORIAL.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sni„—Personal affection and a great admiration of the character and public • services rendered to America and England by Mr. Page unite as incitements to my contribution. The placing of the memorial in the Abbey, too, increases my interest, for my boyhood had many associations with that glorious church. My uncle by marriage was its organist for fifty years, has a window in it and a tablet in its cloisters, and I was with him in the organ loft on public occasions.
Mr. Page was introduced to Mr. Strachey in my house. He and I were associated in some literary work, and he gave me most valuable assistance in my effort to induce the Ameri- can Government to publish Mr. Page's Plymouth speech in America through its Bureau of Information, an effort which, by the way, was frustrated by President Wilson's chief of that Bureau on the sole ground that it was not " deemed advisable " to do that which was asked. These facts indicate the Spec- tator as the channel through which my contribution should be made, and therefore I enclose my cheque for two guineas payable to its order.--I am, Sir, &e.,
SAMUEL R. HONEY, A Civil War Soldier.
Hotel Westminster, Menton, Alpes Maritintes.
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