LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Believe it or Not
SIR,—That suave essayist, Mr Harold Nicolson, who, like Mr. Ripley of Ripley's Believe it or Not, has " so amicable a manner that we are not for one moment depressed by the length and breadth of our own ignorance," allows himself, at moments, to be misled. In your issue of October 12th he declares that, " I never kfievetill now that Sweet William was called after Butcher Cumberland." He doesn't know it now. John Gerard, gardener-in-chief to Queen Elizabeth's Minister, Lord Burleigh, devotes a section to Sweet Williams in his Herbal. Have I gone too far ? Shall I be forgiven ? In any case, may Mr. Nicolson flourish like the Camomile, on the subject of which he quotes a moving phrase from Mr. Ripley.-1 am, Sir, yours faithfully, EDITH SITWELL. Renishaw Hall, Renishaw, nr. Sheffield.
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