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home. It is very pretty to look upon. I do not think you have ever seen anything of the kind. We had a great heat one day. The sun shone brightly (an exception in England.) We were all out on the lawn that is South of the dining-room, where the windows open on to the ground. A bright rug was spread for our feet to rest upon. Easy chairs to set upon, and then with the side of the house corner with purple clusters of clematis ^[[for a foreground prelude]] we listened to the Victor gramophone ^[[placed in the open window of the dining room]] giving us Wagner and other compositions. It was very delightful for whichever way we turned, there was beauty, a cluster of trees with seats underneath them, the wide spread of lawn that opened into