25 AUGUST 1923, Page 15

SMOLLETT'S LETTERS.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

Sin,—Any of your readers who know the present whereabouts of letters of Tobias Smollett, the eighteenth-century novelist and historian, will confer a great favour upon the undersigned by communicating with him at an early opportunity, as it is his present endeavour to collect and edit these letters. Several, hitherto unpublished, are known to be in private collections. To some of these the present writer has been given access : it is his hope that this appeal may persuade other owners to co-operate in this work.—! am, Sir, &c.,

19 Montague Street, London, W.C. 1. EDWARD S. NOYES.

(After September 1st, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A.)