From Lord Braybrooke   31 January 1832

My dear Sir

Your letter has been forwarded to M ^r Blackie, and I give you due credit for setting a trap for him little doubting that he will put his foot into it, viz furnishing materials to convict his own theories.

I have heard that he is about to leave M ^r Cokes service, but I do not know that it is true.

Mr Gage tells me that Cole in one of his ms vols in the British Museum, mentions the Ebulus or dwarf elder as growing on the Bartlow Hills, & being commonly called Dane’s blood. I never heard however that Cole was a botanist.

On the other page I have copied the dimensions of two of the trees near this house with the dates &c

I hope that you will not suffer from the unwelcome intruder into your eye, & that you will leave the Ladies to themselves rather than risk an inflammation or inconvenience from lionizing

Believe me

D ^r Sir

Y ^rs faithfully

Braybrooke

Dimensions of the self sown oak and the large Cedar in the Mount Garden at Audley End

Sown in Oak Height6 1796 1832 f. i.

at 3 feet from the ground 3 10 6. 2

9 feet 3. 3 5. 6 1832

Height 46. 4 56. 4

Cedar

of

Lebanon

Planted 1832

2 f. i.

3 feet from the ground 11 5