Your affte. old friend,
Octavia Hill.
The laying out as a garden of the Quaker Burial Ground.
14, Not. Pl., W.
Sunday, March 15th.
To Mrs. Edmund Maurice.
Miss Y. and I went down to Quaker St. yesterday. The ground seems nicely finished.... Mrs. W. was very full of joy about it—said she thought it would save the children from accidents; the streets were so crowded with drays, and children could play in the garden till parents or elders fetched them. She said it had been crowded with children when the man was painting there. Mr. W. came in while we were there. He said he had hoped for some little opening (ceremony), but added, “it is a small thing,” in a voice that showed it was anything but that to them. He said quite cheerfully he should just have their teachers, and march the children in, and have a little chat about not throwing stones.
RUSKIN’S INFLUENCE
April 2nd, 1887.
To Sydney Cockerell.