University Slang
Sul,-An the Spectator of April 14th two correspondents draw attention to minor errors in Dr. H. W. Garrod's review, of March 31st, of Mr. Marpks's University Slang. Partly because I am a great lover of accuracy and partly because I am the last survivor of our small branch of the family—so that if I don't do it probably no one will—I feel I ought to point out another little mistake. Dr. Garrod says that Mr. Marples is wrong in stating that my brother (the late W. T. S. Stallybrass) was called " Snuggins " when an undergraduate at Christ Church. But Mr. Marples is quite right. Almost all my brother's friends at " The House " called him " Snuggins " and continued to do so till his dying day. I remember how amused our parents and 1 were once when, after watching a cricket match in which he had been playing, we heard a scout refer to him as " our Mr. Snugs."
It was not till after his return to Oxford in 1911 as a Fellow of Brasenose College that he acquired the name of " Sonners," which became almost universal.—Youri faithfully, FRANCES H. S. STALLYBRASS. 10 Manstone Road. N.W.2.
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