23 OCTOBER 1909, Page 16

AN APPEAL TO COLLECTORS.

[To TES EDITOR OP TEE "spserivoa."3 Srn,—I am collecting materials with a view to helping the ComitS d'Initiative de Proving and the Societ6 d'Archeologie de Seine et Marne, who wish to know dates and details when Provins was in the possession of the English, and where archival manuscripts relating to these may be consulted and copied. Such manuscripts may be under the rubric of Provins, Champagne, or In Brie, or may have become the property of a private collector. In this case would the owner kindly help me in niyquestP I shall be much obliged for any assistance that the readers of the Spectator may be able to afford me at the subjoined address.—I am, Sir, &c., 85 Paulton's Square, Chelsea, S.W. A. Tmarcat.