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Sent from Wrest Park:

1776

From: 1776 To: 1776

"At present in high beauty, and the different shades of fresh verdure which I see from my window seem a happy change from the old dirty brick of London streets. The lilac are all gone, but he laburnums are very pretty and the hawthorns are in flower... the birds are singing all day long, and I think I have heard the nightingale... I came down by Luton... the road is in a very good state... I went... to the new walk and found the stakes placed properly... and a way cut through the bushes but nothing else done. We shall speak to Seccumbe about it. Thorpe assures us that the fruit promises very well.". 8 or 9 rhubarb plants from seed Polwarth brought from Scotland. 5 cygnets.

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Seccumbe,
Thorpe

CORRESPONDENCE, Wrest Park, gardens, nightingales, fruit