"DEAR Sin HENRY', Thanks are destined to be always the-
principal part of every letter I write to you.—And now come a hare and pheasant—and, what are stil more precious to me, the golden pippins. If they come from the tree you planted, as I hope they do, I will keep every seed to sow wherever I have land. But fruit-trees, like men, are apt to produce degenerate and dissimilar fruit. Of the millions of golden pippins that have been sown, not a single one in the whole of this county has produced fruit after its kin& No matter My successors shall have some memento of Sutton Court. If we both of DB are alive in summer, I hope to spend another day or two with you there. A few poems of mine are about to be published. I make a present of them to Nichols of Edinborough—for I never wish to profit by anything write or do. I was incited to this publication that I might record, for another generation or two, my esteem of Sir Henry Stracey. A few lines will do this as effectually as a volume. I hope to send you the book in about twenty days at farthest—meantime, and/ always believe me,
"Dear Sir Henry "Your obliged and. faithful
"W. S. LANDOR "
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