Miss Adelina Frostwick

Held the Society’s record for longest unbroken correspondence on a single point of usage: fifty-two years (1879–1931), with The Spectator, on the proper position of the apostrophe in the possessive of "Jones". Her final letter, dictated from her sickbed and posted on the morning of her death, concluded: "I do not expect to live to receive your reply, and I am told I should not. But the matter is not, on that account, settled. The apostrophe will outlast us both." The Spectator, in an unprecedented gesture, printed the letter on its leader page. The Society notes the gesture, and notes also that the leader page contained two typographical errors, neither corrected.