DERWENTWATER.
[TO THE EDITOR OP TRH "SPRDTATOR.1 SIR,—You have shown such appreciative sympathy with the scheme for preserving a portion of the western shore of Derwentwater, and your readers responded so heartily to my appeal in your columns, that I think you may care to make known to them that "A Stroller's" letter offeriss give E100 if nine others would give a like amount has brought five such donors, and we are eagerly hoping four mote will come forward. The fund now (including conditional protoise.,) amounts to £5,348, so that we seem within measurable distance of securing the £7,000 necessary to carry through the scheme. The time, however, is passing away, so that it behoves all who care to help quickly. Donations can be sent to Canon Rawnsley, Crosthwaite Vicarage, or to myself. have had the privilege of reading many of the letters which accompanied donations. They represent all classes, every age, and many kinds of interest. There are the millgirl who with a mother and sister sends 3s., the ladies "in memoy of a happy holiday," the octogenarian who with his wife wishes others to enjoy what they have done in the past; four donors each give i:60, the price of an acre of land, in memory of those they love ; we have gifts from Boston and New York, from travellers in the Rocky Mountains and Japan, front every part of England ; so that the land, if secured, will be, to those of us who know the facts, the joint gift of those who have really cared. Surely the £1,652 still ezriedel H
d HILL. sent. —I am, Sir, &c., o 190 Marylebone Road, N. W.
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