[TO THE EDITOR OA THE "SPECTATOR."]
Sin,—I hope you will allow me emphatically to contradict the statement of your correspondent, Mr. H. R. Grenfell, that Lady Aldborough " went into every house in Paris wheie candles were lit, invited or uninvited." I can confidently assure him that Lady Aldborough never entered any house as an unbidden guest; she was too " good company" to be in need of invitations, and in 1842, when Mr. Grenfell bad the advan- tage of knowing her, she must have been close upon 90, and was not very likely to be wandering about Paris in search of a "lit-up house" for her entertainment! I may as well correct another misstatement, though an immaterial one. Mr. Grenfell is in error in thinking that Maria, Lady Ailesbury, was a relation of Lady Aldborough. My grandmother was not in any way related to that well-known and much-loved
lady.—I am, Sir, &c., W. A. TOLLEMACHE. Eaton House, Eaton Square, S.W.
[We are reluctantly obliged to close this correspondence. We beg to thank our correspondents for their very interesting contributions.—ED. Spectator.]
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