Completed: Letter to the Times needed
Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 2:47 pm
Hope someone has a library card that lets them search the Times archives 
I just came across a letter to an Icelandic paper, dated 3 Feb 1883, by W G Spence Paterson. He was very annoyed about a couple of letters published in the Times. He says that one WG Lock had written to him in September (1882 I presume) and asked if he agreed with the information in a letter which he wanted to send to the Times. Paterson replied that he did. Then (so Paterson says) Lock published this supporting letter without asking permission, and worse still he published a different letter of his own so it looked as though Paterson was agreeing to something entirely different.
Anyhow, that is all a bit of a sidetrack. I want to find out more about this W G Lock and I hope that if someone can find the letter in the Times then it will have some indication of where W G Lock lived, or something else. This is all I know so far:
William George Lock was English. He travelled to Iceland in 1878 and 1880 and published a couple of books about it. He seems to have been into hunting and fishing and was also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
I don't know where he was born, or when, or what he did with the rest of his life.
So, if someone has online access could they look for a letter by W G Lock (or W G Spence Paterson) published after September 1882 and before 3rd Feb 1883. If you can give me the contents of the two letters then that would be interesting, but mostly I want to know if it says anything about Lock which would help pin him down.
I just came across a letter to an Icelandic paper, dated 3 Feb 1883, by W G Spence Paterson. He was very annoyed about a couple of letters published in the Times. He says that one WG Lock had written to him in September (1882 I presume) and asked if he agreed with the information in a letter which he wanted to send to the Times. Paterson replied that he did. Then (so Paterson says) Lock published this supporting letter without asking permission, and worse still he published a different letter of his own so it looked as though Paterson was agreeing to something entirely different.
Anyhow, that is all a bit of a sidetrack. I want to find out more about this W G Lock and I hope that if someone can find the letter in the Times then it will have some indication of where W G Lock lived, or something else. This is all I know so far:
William George Lock was English. He travelled to Iceland in 1878 and 1880 and published a couple of books about it. He seems to have been into hunting and fishing and was also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
I don't know where he was born, or when, or what he did with the rest of his life.
So, if someone has online access could they look for a letter by W G Lock (or W G Spence Paterson) published after September 1882 and before 3rd Feb 1883. If you can give me the contents of the two letters then that would be interesting, but mostly I want to know if it says anything about Lock which would help pin him down.
