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Washington, D. C.
God Save the King
Sirs:
Being an Englishman and living in Montreal for the last 20 years, and not speaking French, I am writing to you to inform you that the French-Canadian is patriotic to both King and country. . . .
And, may we further inform you that the King and Queen have not begun a "Royal Torture," . . . but, in their own words, "we are looking forward to our trip to Canada." May we also inform you that if any of you Americans were presented to the King and Queen of England you would not know whether to stand on your head, shake hands, or bow. . . .
And if you wish it we can also send you a letter from Americans who were here to see the King and Queen and who said that we were lucky and indeed fortunate to have such a great King and Queen, and that they hoped that one day they would also be subjects of our King and Queen.
We suggest that you read and learn a little more of what is going on in Canada and thus broaden your stilted views of Canada and its people.
And, as a last word, "God Save Our King and Queen, and God Save the British Empire."
G. GARRAWAY
Montreal, Que.
> If any U. S. citizens renounced their citizenship in Montreal, they may have trouble getting across the border coming home.—ED.
Tommy Corcoran No. 3
Sirs:
MORE TOMMY CORCORAN [TIME, MAY 29, p. 20]: TOMMY (THOMAS FRANCIS) CORCORAN, CHEMICAL ENGINEER, DU PONT COMPANY, WASHBURN, WISCONSIN. GRADUATE (CUM LAUDE) UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 1920. MAY NOT BE TIME'S NUMBER 3 BUT IS TOMMY CORCORAN NUMBER 1 TO ANN, 6, TO PAUL, 4. CANNOT VOUCH FOR HIS POLITICS.
MARY BARRETT
Pullman, Wash.
"All Quiet Along the Potomac"
Sirs:
. . . This poem [All Quiet Along the Potomac, TIME, May 22] first appeared in Harper's Weekly, Nov. 20, 1861, as the work of Mrs. Ethel Lynn Beers. Many months later, it began to come out in Southern journals, represented as a genuine product of Southern talent and said to have been found on the person of a dead Confederate soldier. Thereupon at least two Southerners rose to claim it as their own, the more loquacious of whom was Major Lamar Fontainne, of the Second Virginia Cavalry Regiment. . . .
This controversy has been gone over time and again in many books of Civil War songs and ballads. It is discussed in the article on Mrs. Beers in the Dictionary of American Biography. In October 1879, on tne day before her death, appeared a book of Mrs. Beers' collected poems, entitled "All Quiet Along the Potomac and other Poems." The issue of authorship had then been settled adequately, but now after 60 years Decca is again stirring up this little flame of sectional jealousy!
ALDEN W. SQUIRES
Brcokline, Mass.