MRS. FORD OF PENCARROW.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sra,—When conversing to-day about the late Mrs. Ford of Pencarrow, with whom I was most intimately associated for many years, I was informed that the following facts would be a source of much interest to you. Mrs. Ford often told me with great pride that she believed she was the oldest constant reader of the Spectator living, having read it week by week ever since her girlhood, and, I think, from the date of its first publication. Mrs. Ford read it page by page, and marked with a pencil paragraphs which specially interested her, and when in London she always forwarded the paper to her manager at Pencarrow, passing it on frequently through me. Mrs. Ford, as you are no doubt aware, had reached her ninty-fifth year, and so clearly did she retain her faculties that a day or two before her death on March 4th I was informed by telegram she was reading the. Spectator, and
marking it as usual. One remarkable fact amongst many concerning this grand old lady was that she could read without glasses until the end of her life.—I am, Sir, &c., A. B. B. MYERS, Brigade Surgeon, Lieut.-Colonel.
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