Madam. - With reference to Patrick Smyth's interesting article on James Bourchier (Sofia Diary, May 23rd), I wondered if something similar could be done about the grave of Henry Essex Edgeworth, father confessor to King Louis XVI, who attended the king at the guillotine and accompanied Louis XVIII into exile.
Baedeker's Russia (1914) describes Edgeworth's grave as a neglected sepulchral chapel in Jelgava, in present-day Latvia. An excellent biography of Edgeworth was written by MV Woodgate in 1946. - Yours, etc,
RAYMOND DOLAN, Ardfarna, Bundoran, Co Donegal.