" BEHIND THE SHUT DOOR."
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It occurs to me that criticism of the sincerity and value of the suggestion made in my previous letter, and comment on the detailed methods of carrying it out, would come most fittingly from the person to whom the offer was addressed, and after trial of it. When comments thereon are offered from an outside source, and are accompanied by the ingenious ascription to me of much cant and foolishness, which I neither wrote nor thought, regarding " An. Ex-Patient's " letter, it seems wisest merely to leave to the judgment of yourself and your readers the question of how far they form a helpful contribution to a serious problem, even when enlivened with references to my nalvetd, singular incapacity and official bias.
I would merely repeat, therefore, my previous invitation, and also my specific statement that I ventured to write of mental hospitals in general, and not merely of the one with which I am associated, which I have no desire to bring into undue prominence in this connexion.—I am, Sir, &e.,
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