Dunster,
September 14th, 1910.
To Mrs. Edmund Maurice.
We are having very beautiful walks. We drove to Minehead and then walked along a wonderful cliff with splendid views. When the road came to an end, we passed a little footpath thro’ fern and heather and dwarf gorse.... At last we came to a rounded hill, which formed the end of the high ground; and, far below us, we saw Porlock. We went quite down the hillside by a lovely path cut on the slope by Sir Thos. Acland, who also has made innumerable lovely paths all thro’ his woods, all open to the public. We took a carriage from the little village of Bossington, and the driver said: “If ever anything good is done, you always find the Aclands are at the bottom of it.” This man had been five years up in London as a grocer’s assistant; but finding his father overdone with his farm, came back to help him, and says he and his brothers are making a thorough success of it.
THE “NATIONAL TRUST”
July 25, 1911.
Speaking of the National Trust she says:
We are a body with many members, and, besides ourselves, there are the various local correspondents of all sorts. We have had no friction, and this has been largely due to the tact and judgment of our Secretary. We must try to secure this again, but the sphere of work is much larger than when Mr. Bond came.
Bettws-y-Coed,
February 5th, 1911.