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Sir George Beaumont, Coleorton Hall, to Samuel Whitbread II

13 October 1805

From: 1805 To: 1805

"I am sorry to inform you Mr Reynolds finds such difficulties in the practical part of a Landscape Gardiner that he dispairs of being able to surmount them...... Mr Dance .... is of opinion that without Mr Reynolds make himself master of the business of a surveyor, that he may be able to comprehend the extent of any plan in a short time, so as to give his employer a general idea of all he means to do, together with an estimate of the probable expense; he will meet with little encouragement.....he should moreover be competent to make bargains with workmen without assistance, or he will be at the mercy of every steward or gardiner who may think he stands in the way of their interest." The pity of his abandoning a profession (engraving) in which he leads for an uncertain new one. His hard work and energy. [Mr Dance is probably George Dance the Younger, the architect who designed Coleorton Hall as rebuilt c1802.]

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Reynolds, Samuel William,
Whitbread, Samuel II,
Beaumont, George,
Dance, George

Coleorton, landscape gardener, specific gardens, SURVEYORS & SURVEYING