[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—I venture to write to you the history of my copy of the Spectator as a witness to the esteem in which your valua■le paper is held. This copy is purchased in the first instance by a Lancashire gentleman whom I do not know. By him it is passed on to a doctor living in the same place. The doctor posts it to a clergyman in the South of England. After being read by several members of the clergyman's family, it is sent to his daughter in China—myself. When I have digested its contents, I send it to two mission houses, both a few miles distant from the city where I live, and, on its return to me, it often finds its way across the Pacific to a farm in Canada.—I am, Sir, &c., M. FAITHFULL DAVIES.
[We print the above as an example of letters which occa- sionally reach us in regard to the oversea wanderings of the Spectator. We should not be human if we did not feel pride and satisfaction in such a record.—ED. Spectator.]
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