MRS. SHERWOOD.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—The notices of Mrs. Sherwood and her works which have appeared in your columns must seem to the general public like references to a bygone age. But to the few who, like the writer, knew that gifted lady personally, and delighted in her conversation when adults as much as they had revelled in her tales when children, it may be interesting to hear that there is still in existence one close link with the author of " Henry and his Bearer," no less close than her only son, Henry Sherwood, for many years the rector of White Ladies' Aston, near Pershore, Worcestershire, a benefice which he has just resigned. It may seem hardly, credible that the original of one of the characters in " The Fairchild Family," as Mr. Sherwood is believed to be, should still be with us, but so it is ; and as, in his ninety-eighth year, he has linked the name of Sherwood with the completion of the first decade of the twentieth century, so we may hope that he will go on to celebrate his centenary. The literary productions of Mrs. Sherwood have shown a remarkable vitality; she seems to have communicated the same quality to her son.—I
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