7 FEBRUARY 1891, Page 18

MEMORABLE LONDON HOUSES.

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR,"] SIR,—In reference to a notice in the Spectator of January 31st of my work on "Memorable London Houses," may I be permitted to correct an inference which might arise as to the scope of the work from the allusion to the absence of Lord Tennyson's name in connection with Lincoln's Inn Fields ? The book does not profess to include living celebrities. I shall be obliged to any One who can identify existing houses in Bedford Row with persons of note. Your critic has taken no account of the modern " improvements " which have demo- lished Abernethy's.—I am, Sir, &c.,