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however, to Dr. Maty to remark that his ' Memoirs ' were published posthumously and that he did not live "to put the finishing hand to them." It is quite probable that he intended to insert a few poems by Lord Chesterfield besides the one quoted, since he assures us that " several of his pieces of poetry would have done honour to those distinguished writers he was so familiar with." Can any reader throw more light upon this matter, or bring forward any other example of Chesterfield's verse ?

MARCUS GILBART. Letchworth.

"THE CALL OF " Was Mr. Kipling

the first writer to use the expression " the call of," e.g., "The call of the Red Gods " ? In American advertisements of railways it is now common to see " The Call of the Wild," " The Call of the Sea," " The Call of the Forest," &c. I suppose one of the first " calls " of the kind was the famous " And deep calleth unto deep."

R. B. MARSTON.

CONTEMPORARY M.P.s OF THE SAME XAME. 1. George Treby senior, M.P. Dartmouth, 1722 to 1727. George Treby, M.P. Plymp- ton, 1708 to 1727 ; Dartmouth, 1727', till he died March 8, 1742 ; Secretary at War, December, 1718, to April, 1724 ; eldest son of Sir George Treby, Knt., Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. Who was the former ? Dalton (vol. v. p. 77) is clearly in error in saying that he was

"probably son of Sir George Treby, Lord Chief Justice of England, was appointed Captain and Lieut.-Colonel in the 1st Foot Guards 12 Jan., 1720, left the regiment before 1727, died 1763," as it was the Secretary at War's second son, Lieut.-Col. George Hele Treby of the 1st Foot Guards, who was M.P. Plympton, December, 1761, till he died May 11, 1763, having succeeded his only brother, also George Treby, who sat for Plympton, December, 1747, till he died Nov. 5, 1761. I think it is clear that George Treby senior was the person of that name made lieutenant in Col. Roger Townshend's new Regiment of Foot, April 12, 1706, and who held the captaincy in the 1st Foot Guards, Jan. 12, 1720, till he retired March 9, 1727, and was Captain and Governor of Dartmouth Castle, Dec. 24, 1720, till May 1, 1730. He was evidently a kinsman to the Secretary at War, but what was his parentage, and when and whom did lie marry, and when did he die ?

2. In the Parliament of 1747 to 1754, George Bubb Dodington of Gunvill, Dorset, afterwards Lord Melcombe, the diarist, was

M.P. for Bridgwater ; and George Doding- ton of Horsington, Dorset, sat for Wey mouth and Melcombe Regis, which the former, and his uncle of the same name, had also pre- viously represented. George Dodington of Horsington is said to have been a cousin of Lord Melcombe, but I should be obliged for particulars of his parentage, marriage, and death. Would he be the George Dodington admitted to Lincoln's Inn, July 17, 1705, as son and heir of William Dodington of Lambeth ? W. R. W.

MASH AM. When did Sir William Masham* Bart., M.P. for Essex, die, and where was he buried ? And when did his son William Masham, jun., who married Elizabeth, daugh- ter of Sir John Trevor, and was M.P. for Shrewsbury, die, and where was he buried ? G. E. C. states that the former died " about 1656," and that the latter died " v. p."

G. F. R. B.

MONKS' SOHAM : PARISH HISTORY. Will any of your correspondents who may possess or be acquainted with any MS. deeds, escripts, or documents of any sort touching persons and property in the little parish of Monks' Soham, olim Soham .sive Saegham Monachorum, in Suffolk, be so very good as to communicate with me ? I have been astonished at the amount of information already published about so small an area : now I am attempting to augment the public records (the whole of which are believed to have been collected) from private sources, and any contribution will be received with due gratitude.

CLAUDE MORLEY, F.Z.S. Monks' Soham House. Suffolk.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS. I should be grateful to any reader who could give me

' chapter and verse " for the following quotations in Lord Dufferin's ' Letters from

High Latitudes ' :

1. Some mystical spot " out of space, out of
 * ime" (Letter 7).

2. This very morn I 've felt the sweet surprise Of unexpected lips on sealed eyes (7).

3. le simple appareil

D'une beaute qu'on vient d'arracher au som-

meil (8).

4. 86s /tot rb irrtpov (6).

i any one cares to have the references to other quotations in this pleasant book, I shall be pleased to supply them.

H. K. ST. J. S. Ashfield, Bedford.

[At 11 S. xi. 89, 135, will be found other com- munications relating to Lord Dufferin's book.]