To the Editor:

On page one of last week’s Town Topics [“Battlefield Society Continues Opposition to Institute Plans,” Oct. 5 ], there is the following paragraph: “Last week’s statement by PBS claimed that the housing project would “wreak havoc on historic Maxwell’s field, the site where George Washington charged to victory during the January 3, 1777 Battle of Princeton.”

The point of a scholarly pamphlet I have just completed, called The Story of Maxwell Lane, is to show that there is no and never was such place as “Maxwell’s Field.” Mr. Robert C. Maxwell moved with his family to Princeton in 1922. My work presents a history of the vast property called “Mercer Manor” from the days of William Penn to 1956 when the Institute completed its acquisition of land. Copies of this pamphlet are now on sale at the Labyrinth Book Store.

Marilyn Aronberg Lavin

Maxwell Lane