Primrose Hill Park, Regent's Park, and Hampstead Heath

by William Ray Smee

Regent’s Park North,
5th April, 1873.

William Ray Smee, Esq.,

Sir,

Mr. Gladstone desires me to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 6th instant.

I am, Sir,

Your obedient Servant,
J. A. Godley.

10, Downing Street, Whitehall,
8th April, 1873.

Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P.,
&c., &c.

Sir,

I am obliged to trouble you again respecting the purchase by the Government of about eighteen acres of land adjoining Primrose Hill Park, for upon a portion of it the turf is now being rapidly taken away, and the land is to be built upon unless something is at once decided.