LETTER : Bad dream comes true for Barings

From Ms Luela Palmer

Sir: The following is taken from "Nightmare", by W. S. Gilbert, from Iolanthe:

The shares are a penny,

and ever so many

are taken by Rothschild and Baring,

and just as a few are allotted to you,

you awake with a shudder despairing.

How is Rothschild now?

Yours faithfully,

LUELA PALMER

Colchester

27 February