Love and friendship are the finest assets in the Bank of Life.
“April, 1908.
“My dear Mrs. Tweedie,
“I warmly congratulate you on what is certain to prove a most successful book. I have read it through with great interest—and old Londoner and old Hyde Parker as I am—for I can remember it seventy years ago! I find very many facts and stories new to me. And yet I am a bit of a London antiquary and have written on London and have helped to make London (when I designed Kingsway for L.C.C.).
“The book will go, and has come to stay.
“We are still very chilly down in the Weald, though daffodils and hyacinths have begun to show and chestnuts are breaking. It is the latest spring I ever knew. The only consolation is—there are hardly any primroses this year to celebrate the Orgy of Evil.
“Yours sincerely,
“Frederic Harrison.”
From generation to generation, Hyde Park has been the wide theatre upon which many tragedies and comedies of London have been enacted, the forum where many liberties have been demanded, the scene where national triumphs have been celebrated.