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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, Primrose Hill Park, Regent's Park, and
+Hampstead Heath, by William Ray Smee
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+Title: Primrose Hill Park, Regent's Park, and Hampstead Heath
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+Author: William Ray Smee
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+Release Date: May 16, 2020 [eBook #62152]
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+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PRIMROSE HILL PARK, REGENT'S PARK,
+AND HAMPSTEAD HEATH***
+
+
+Transcribed from the 1873 Shaw and Sons edition by David Price, email
+ccx074@pglaf.org
+
+ [Picture: Pamphlet cover]
+
+ _PRIVATE CIRCULATION_.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+
+
+
+
+ PRIMROSE HILL PARK,
+ REGENT’S PARK,
+ AND
+ HAMPSTEAD HEATH.
+
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ LONDON:
+ PRINTED BY SHAW AND SONS, FETTER LANE, E.C.
+ 1873.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE.
+
+
+THE main object sought to be attained in this correspondence was to
+induce the Government to purchase two plots of land adjoining Primrose
+Hill Park, together about eighteen acres, that space may be given to a
+great and rapidly-increasing population for football and cricket. It is
+probable most persons who know the wants of the district will be of
+opinion that it is very desirable this should be done. Every summer’s
+evening there is, in the small space of ground now available in the
+Regent’s Park, over-crowding and a badly made game. Many who wish to
+play cannot for want of room, and two fine boys, about fourteen years of
+age, complained that they were frequently hit, and the balls crossed each
+other so closely that they did not know their own ball. But another
+proposal was incidentally mentioned, upon which there cannot be the same
+unanimity. It is suggested that a road should be made from the top of
+Portland Place for equestrians, carriages, and cabs through the Regent’s
+Park, and then to some part of Hampstead Heath. If any one considering
+this question will stand at the top of Portland Place and imagine the
+same carried on straight through the park, and then, as far as now can be
+done, a park-like road made to the Heath, and reflect how charming and
+healthy such a drive and ride must be, with the bracing air and beautiful
+views on all sides, easy and pleasant of access, he, perhaps, may think
+the scheme worthy of very careful investigation.
+
+Those who are acquainted with Paris know the extraordinary change for the
+better effected when a new and direct road was carried from the Arc de
+L’Etoile to the Bois de Boulogne, and it is to be presumed that
+improvements will, without loss of time, be made in Hampstead Heath, and,
+as in the Bois de Boulogne, suitable rides and drives created. The
+natural advantages of the situation are in favour of London as compared
+with Paris, and it is not too much to say, if proper use is made of them,
+that, as a whole, Regent’s Park, Primrose Hill Park, and Hampstead Heath
+will, for all the purposes that parks are formed, be unsurpassed in
+Europe.
+
+But to open the park at Portland Place may require an Act of Parliament,
+and many may think the Regent’s Park is best as it is; nevertheless, the
+extreme beauty of a road through the centre of the Regent’s Park, in
+addition to being so much nearer, ought to be a consideration. It will
+shorten the drive to Primrose Hill going and returning, over the present
+route, nearly a mile; but should this not be deemed sufficient reason for
+the change, then it may be desirable to make a carriage bridge over the
+canal instead of the present foot bridge at the end of the Broad Walk,
+opening into the Albert Road at St. Mark’s Church and close by Primrose
+Hill.
+
+Should public opinion approve this scheme there is no reason to suppose
+the Government will offer any opposition to it.
+
+2, ST. EDMUND’S TERRACE,
+ REGENT’S PARK NORTH,
+ 25_th_ _June_, 1873.
+
+
+
+
+LETTERS.
+
+
+ The Right Hon. W. E. GLADSTONE, M.P.,
+ &c., &c.
+
+SIR,
+
+Knowing the great and arduous duties you have to perform I regret being
+obliged to call your attention to a very small affair, but the case is
+urgent, and in a few months buildings will be placed upon a portion of
+the ground.
+
+Primrose Hill Park is very much used by boys as a cricket or foot-ball
+ground, and on Saturdays there is not enough space. Even to-day, with
+the ground wet and weather not inviting, it was full, and in the summer
+months boys go away because there is not room to play.
+
+It may, therefore, be worthy of your consideration whether the Government
+should not purchase the Eton and Middlesex Cricket Ground, which adjoins,
+and consists of about twelve acres. This is a private ground, and, I
+believe, does not pay. There is another plot of about six acres which
+will be immediately built upon unless the Government at once secure it.
+
+This would make a splendid addition to the park, and, perhaps, £20,000
+would purchase the whole.
+
+I have the honour to be, Sir,
+
+ Your obedient servant,
+ WILLIAM RAY SMEE.
+
+Regent’s Park North,
+ 5_th_ _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,
+ 8_th_ _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.
+
+There is a necessity for adding this ground to the Park. The population
+is rapidly increasing. Every small open space is closed. Boys and
+youths who cannot afford to pay have no place for cricket except on
+public property. On Saturdays, the young of more than half a million of
+people come to Primrose Hill, or would come if there were space. This
+afternoon there were between 2,000 and 3,000, and if the day had been
+finer there would have been many more.
+
+I showed to a gentleman well conversant with the district the ground I
+thought ought to be purchased, and he assured me in five years’ time,
+with the addition, space would be wanting, and strongly urged the
+publication of the suggestion. That, however, I am very unwilling to do
+so long as there is a prospect of the Government acting in this business,
+and I therefore venture respectfully to ask your decision.
+
+Assume that the cost will be £20,000, it is only part of the interest on
+that amount the Government can lose. The State is equally rich whether
+the property is in money or land. The eighteen acres will make excellent
+sheep land, and must yield something, and the strength and health given
+to many thousand youths must speedily add to the national revenue far
+more than the remainder.
+
+The financial side of the question is really quite insignificant, but the
+moral good done will be of the highest importance.
+
+I have the honour to be, Sir,
+
+ Your obedient Servant,
+ WILLIAM RAY SMEE.
+
+Regent’s Park North,
+ 26_th_ _April_, 1873.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Before this letter was answered the following was sent:—
+
+Mr. WILLIAM RAY SMEE presents his respects to Mr. Gladstone, and, in
+reference to his communication of Saturday, wishes to say, as showing the
+importance of taking into consideration the rapid increase of population;
+that some years ago, when there was a field walk, but little frequented
+on weekdays, from Primrose Hill to Hampstead, he proposed to Lord
+Palmerston to purchase sufficient ground and make a road from the top of
+Portland Place, through Regent’s Park, and round Primrose Hill straight
+to Hampstead Heath.
+
+This road along its whole length was to have been Park-like, to be used
+by carriages, cabs, and persons on horseback, would have added to the
+beauty of the West of London, and if the Government had thought it
+desirable, might have been made to repay its cost by the surplus land
+between Primrose Hill and Hampstead that might have been sold for villas.
+
+Such a road was much wanted, and private enterprise has already made
+two-thirds of it, and placed houses on both sides. Nevertheless it is
+altogether different from what the State would have done. It is neither
+broad nor straight. It does not add to, but takes from the beauty of the
+neighbourhood. In the meantime Hampstead Heath has become public
+property, and the opportunity to make a direct approach thereto from
+Regent Street in a way, which foreign visitors to London would have
+greatly admired, is permanently lost.
+
+Mr. Smee mentions this, as it may still be worthy of consideration,
+whether Regent’s Park might not be opened at Portland Place, and whether
+anything can now be accomplished in the unmade portion of the road
+between Primrose Hill and Hampstead Heath.
+
+ To the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P.,
+ &c., &c.,
+
+Regent’s Park North,
+ 2_nd_ _May_, 1873.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+On the 6th May the letter of the 26th April was acknowledged:—
+
+ To WILLIAM RAY SMEE, ESQ.,
+
+SIR,
+
+Mr. Gladstone desires me to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the
+2nd instant, on a matter which seems to belong to the province of the
+Metropolitan Board of Works.
+
+I am, Sir,
+
+ Your obedient Servant,
+ J. A. GODLEY.
+
+10, Downing Street,
+ 8_th_ _May_, 1873.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ Right Hon. W. E. GLADSTONE, M.P.,
+
+SIR,
+
+I believe with this letter, I have done all that a gentleman in a private
+station can with propriety do to urge upon the Government the purchase of
+two plots of land, one of six acres and the other of twelve, adjoining
+Primrose Hill, to be used by boys and youths for foot-ball and cricket.
+In a very short time buildings will be commenced upon the smaller plot,
+and the opportunity will be lost.
+
+How much this ground is now wanted was apparent in the numbers playing
+cricket this afternoon in the Regent’s Park. In the portion allotted to
+boys the wickets were placed in many cases only eight yards apart;
+perhaps there were 1000 boys playing, and only those clubs were allowed
+that previously had obtained permission.
+
+The same applies to the ground for youths and men. There were, perhaps,
+800 playing; one set of wickets was close to another on all sides, and it
+was marvellous the game could go on without serious accidents. A
+sergeant of police that happened to be passing told me it looked most
+dangerous, and nothing would induce him to join; but a youth, who was
+playing, said the accidents were very few,—although at first he was much
+frightened, yet the danger was not so great as it appeared.
+
+The purchase of the eighteen acres would relieve this ground, enable some
+of the clubs to go to Primrose Hill, and cricket could be properly and
+joyfully played, and space would be given for many who now very much wish
+to play but cannot.
+
+I have only to add, that should next Saturday afternoon prove fine, any
+gentleman, about five o’clock in the afternoon, may ascertain how painful
+to witness is the present over-crowded cricket ground of the Regent’s
+Park.
+
+I have the honour to be, Sir,
+
+ Your obedient Servant,
+ WILLIAM RAY SMEE.
+
+Regent’s Park North,
+ 10_th_ _May_, 1873.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ WILLIAM RAY SMEE, ESQ.,
+
+Sir,
+
+Mr. Gladstone desires me to inform you that your letter of the 10th inst.
+should have been addressed to the First Commissioner of Works.
+
+I am, Sir,
+
+ Your obedient Servant,
+ W. E. GURDON.
+
+10, Downing Street,
+ 15_th_ _May_, 1873.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+This closes the correspondence, and upon reflection it will be apparent
+that a great nation can find no better and no more economical use for a
+little mite of surplus revenue than its judicious employment in providing
+space for healthy, innocent, and cheap out-door amusement. The money so
+spent on behalf of the population of this gigantic capital will double
+itself over and over again. It is the active and the healthy that make a
+nation progress. It is good sound sense, united with a vigorous frame,
+that enables the man, advantageously to himself, to augment the receipts
+of the British exchequer.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ London: Printed by Shaw & Sons, Fetter Lane.
+
+
+
+
+***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PRIMROSE HILL PARK, REGENT'S PARK,
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+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PRIMROSE HILL PARK, REGENT'S PARK,
+AND HAMPSTEAD HEATH***
+</pre>
+<p>Transcribed from the 1873 Shaw and Sons edition by David
+Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org</p>
+<p style="text-align: center">
+<a href="images/cover.jpg">
+<img alt=
+"Pamphlet cover"
+title=
+"Pamphlet cover"
+ src="images/cover.jpg" />
+</a></p>
+<p style="text-align: center"><i>PRIVATE CIRCULATION</i>.</p>
+
+<div class="gapshortline">&nbsp;</div>
+<h1>PRIMROSE HILL PARK,<br />
+REGENT&rsquo;S PARK,<br />
+<span class="GutSmall">AND</span><br />
+HAMPSTEAD HEATH.</h1>
+
+<div class="gapspace">&nbsp;</div>
+
+<div class="gapshortline">&nbsp;</div>
+
+<div class="gapspace">&nbsp;</div>
+<p style="text-align: center"><span
+class="GutSmall">LONDON:</span><br />
+PRINTED BY SHAW AND SONS, FETTER LANE, E.C.<br />
+1873.</p>
+
+<div class="gapspace">&nbsp;</div>
+<h2><a name="page3"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+3</span>PREFACE.</h2>
+<p><span class="smcap">The</span> main object sought to be
+attained in this correspondence was to induce the Government to
+purchase two plots of land adjoining Primrose Hill Park, together
+about eighteen acres, that space may be given to a great and
+rapidly-increasing population for football and cricket.&nbsp; It
+is probable most persons who know the wants of the district will
+be of opinion that it is very desirable this should be
+done.&nbsp; Every summer&rsquo;s evening there is, in the small
+space of ground now available in the Regent&rsquo;s Park,
+over-crowding and a badly made game.&nbsp; Many who wish to play
+cannot for want of room, and two fine boys, about fourteen years
+of age, complained that they were frequently hit, and the balls
+crossed each other so closely that they did not know their own
+ball.&nbsp; But another proposal was incidentally mentioned, upon
+which there cannot be the same unanimity.&nbsp; It is suggested
+that a road should be made from the top of Portland Place for
+equestrians, carriages, and cabs through the Regent&rsquo;s Park,
+and then to some part of Hampstead Heath.&nbsp; If any one
+considering this question will stand at the top of Portland Place
+and imagine the same carried on straight through the park, and
+then, as far as now can be done, a park-like road made to the
+Heath, and reflect how charming and healthy such a drive and ride
+must be, with the bracing air and beautiful views on all sides,
+easy and pleasant of access, he, perhaps, may think the scheme
+worthy of very careful investigation.</p>
+<p><a name="page4"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 4</span>Those who
+are acquainted with Paris know the extraordinary change for the
+better effected when a new and direct road was carried from the
+Arc de L&rsquo;Etoile to the Bois de Boulogne, and it is to be
+presumed that improvements will, without loss of time, be made in
+Hampstead Heath, and, as in the Bois de Boulogne, suitable rides
+and drives created.&nbsp; The natural advantages of the situation
+are in favour of London as compared with Paris, and it is not too
+much to say, if proper use is made of them, that, as a whole,
+Regent&rsquo;s Park, Primrose Hill Park, and Hampstead Heath
+will, for all the purposes that parks are formed, be unsurpassed
+in Europe.</p>
+<p>But to open the park at Portland Place may require an Act of
+Parliament, and many may think the Regent&rsquo;s Park is best as
+it is; nevertheless, the extreme beauty of a road through the
+centre of the Regent&rsquo;s Park, in addition to being so much
+nearer, ought to be a consideration.&nbsp; It will shorten the
+drive to Primrose Hill going and returning, over the present
+route, nearly a mile; but should this not be deemed sufficient
+reason for the change, then it may be desirable to make a
+carriage bridge over the canal instead of the present foot bridge
+at the end of the Broad Walk, opening into the Albert Road at St.
+Mark&rsquo;s Church and close by Primrose Hill.</p>
+<p>Should public opinion approve this scheme there is no reason
+to suppose the Government will offer any opposition to it.</p>
+<p>2, <span class="smcap">St. Edmund&rsquo;s Terrace</span>,<br
+/>
+
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+<span class="smcap">Regent&rsquo;s Park North</span>,<br />
+
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+25<i>th</i> <i>June</i>, 1873.</p>
+<h2><a name="page5"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+5</span>LETTERS.</h2>
+<p style="text-align: right">The Right Hon. W. E. <span
+class="smcap">Gladstone</span>, M.P.,<br />
+&amp;c., &amp;c.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Sir</span>,</p>
+<p>Knowing the great and arduous duties you have to perform I
+regret being obliged to call your attention to a very small
+affair, but the case is urgent, and in a few months buildings
+will be placed upon a portion of the ground.</p>
+<p>Primrose Hill Park is very much used by boys as a cricket or
+foot-ball ground, and on Saturdays there is not enough
+space.&nbsp; Even to-day, with the ground wet and weather not
+inviting, it was full, and in the summer months boys go away
+because there is not room to play.</p>
+<p>It may, therefore, be worthy of your consideration whether the
+Government should not purchase the Eton and Middlesex Cricket
+Ground, which adjoins, and consists of about twelve acres.&nbsp;
+This is a private ground, and, I believe, does not pay.&nbsp;
+There is another plot of about six acres which will be
+immediately built upon unless the Government at once secure
+it.</p>
+<p><a name="page6"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 6</span>This
+would make a splendid addition to the park, and, perhaps,
+&pound;20,000 would purchase the whole.</p>
+<p>I have the honour to be, Sir,</p>
+<p style="text-align: right">Your obedient servant,<br />
+<span class="smcap">William Ray Smee</span>.</p>
+<p>Regent&rsquo;s Park North,<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 5<i>th</i>
+<i>April</i>, 1873.</p>
+
+<div class="gapmediumline">&nbsp;</div>
+<p style="text-align: right"><span class="smcap">William Ray
+Smee</span>, Esq.,</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Sir</span>,</p>
+<p>Mr. Gladstone desires me to acknowledge the receipt of your
+letter of the 6th instant.</p>
+<p>I am, Sir,</p>
+<p style="text-align: right">Your obedient Servant,<br />
+J. A. <span class="smcap">Godley</span>.</p>
+<p>10, Downing Street, Whitehall,<br />
+
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+8<i>th</i> <i>April</i>, 1873.</p>
+
+<div class="gapmediumline">&nbsp;</div>
+<p style="text-align: right">Right Hon. W. E. <span
+class="smcap">Gladstone</span>, M.P.,<br />
+&amp;c., &amp;c.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Sir</span>,</p>
+<p>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 <a
+name="page7"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 7</span>rapidly taken
+away, and the land is to be built upon unless something is at
+once decided.</p>
+<p>There is a necessity for adding this ground to the Park.&nbsp;
+The population is rapidly increasing.&nbsp; Every small open
+space is closed.&nbsp; Boys and youths who cannot afford to pay
+have no place for cricket except on public property.&nbsp; On
+Saturdays, the young of more than half a million of people come
+to Primrose Hill, or would come if there were space.&nbsp; This
+afternoon there were between 2,000 and 3,000, and if the day had
+been finer there would have been many more.</p>
+<p>I showed to a gentleman well conversant with the district the
+ground I thought ought to be purchased, and he assured me in five
+years&rsquo; time, with the addition, space would be wanting, and
+strongly urged the publication of the suggestion.&nbsp; That,
+however, I am very unwilling to do so long as there is a prospect
+of the Government acting in this business, and I therefore
+venture respectfully to ask your decision.</p>
+<p>Assume that the cost will be &pound;20,000, it is only part of
+the interest on that amount the Government can lose.&nbsp; The
+State is equally rich whether the property is in money or
+land.&nbsp; The eighteen acres will make excellent sheep land,
+and must yield something, and the strength and health given to
+many thousand youths must speedily add to the national revenue
+far more than the remainder.</p>
+<p><a name="page8"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 8</span>The
+financial side of the question is really quite insignificant, but
+the moral good done will be of the highest importance.</p>
+<p>I have the honour to be, Sir,</p>
+<p style="text-align: right">Your obedient Servant,<br />
+<span class="smcap">William Ray Smee</span>.</p>
+<p>Regent&rsquo;s Park North,<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 26<i>th</i>
+<i>April</i>, 1873.</p>
+
+<div class="gapmediumline">&nbsp;</div>
+<p>Before this letter was answered the following was
+sent:&mdash;</p>
+<p>Mr. <span class="smcap">William Ray Smee</span> presents his
+respects to Mr. Gladstone, and, in reference to his communication
+of Saturday, wishes to say, as showing the importance of taking
+into consideration the rapid increase of population; that some
+years ago, when there was a field walk, but little frequented on
+weekdays, from Primrose Hill to Hampstead, he proposed to Lord
+Palmerston to purchase sufficient ground and make a road from the
+top of Portland Place, through Regent&rsquo;s Park, and round
+Primrose Hill straight to Hampstead Heath.</p>
+<p>This road along its whole length was to have been Park-like,
+to be used by carriages, cabs, and persons on horseback, would
+have added to the beauty of <a name="page9"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 9</span>the West of London, and if the
+Government had thought it desirable, might have been made to
+repay its cost by the surplus land between Primrose Hill and
+Hampstead that might have been sold for villas.</p>
+<p>Such a road was much wanted, and private enterprise has
+already made two-thirds of it, and placed houses on both
+sides.&nbsp; Nevertheless it is altogether different from what
+the State would have done.&nbsp; It is neither broad nor
+straight.&nbsp; It does not add to, but takes from the beauty of
+the neighbourhood.&nbsp; In the meantime Hampstead Heath has
+become public property, and the opportunity to make a direct
+approach thereto from Regent Street in a way, which foreign
+visitors to London would have greatly admired, is permanently
+lost.</p>
+<p>Mr. Smee mentions this, as it may still be worthy of
+consideration, whether Regent&rsquo;s Park might not be opened at
+Portland Place, and whether anything can now be accomplished in
+the unmade portion of the road between Primrose Hill and
+Hampstead Heath.</p>
+<p style="text-align: right">To the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone,
+M.P.,<br />
+&amp;c., &amp;c.,</p>
+<p>Regent&rsquo;s Park North,<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2<i>nd</i>
+<i>May</i>, 1873.</p>
+
+<div class="gapmediumline">&nbsp;</div>
+<p><a name="page10"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 10</span>On the
+6th May the letter of the 26th April was acknowledged:&mdash;</p>
+<p style="text-align: right">To <span class="smcap">William Ray
+Smee</span>, <span class="smcap">Esq</span>.,</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Sir</span>,</p>
+<p>Mr. Gladstone desires me to acknowledge the receipt of your
+letter of the 2nd instant, on a matter which seems to belong to
+the province of the Metropolitan Board of Works.</p>
+<p>I am, Sir,</p>
+<p style="text-align: right">Your obedient Servant,<br />
+J. A. <span class="smcap">Godley</span>.</p>
+<p>10, Downing Street,<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 8<i>th</i>
+<i>May</i>, 1873.</p>
+
+<div class="gapmediumline">&nbsp;</div>
+<p style="text-align: right">Right Hon. W. E. <span
+class="smcap">Gladstone</span>, M.P.,</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Sir</span>,</p>
+<p>I believe with this letter, I have done all that a gentleman
+in a private station can with propriety do to urge upon the
+Government the purchase of two plots of land, one of six acres
+and the other of twelve, adjoining Primrose Hill, to be used by
+boys and youths for foot-ball and cricket.&nbsp; In a very short
+time buildings will be commenced upon the smaller plot, and the
+opportunity will be lost.</p>
+<p>How much this ground is now wanted was apparent in the numbers
+playing cricket this afternoon in the Regent&rsquo;s Park.&nbsp;
+In the portion allotted to <a name="page11"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 11</span>boys the wickets were placed in many
+cases only eight yards apart; perhaps there were 1000 boys
+playing, and only those clubs were allowed that previously had
+obtained permission.</p>
+<p>The same applies to the ground for youths and men.&nbsp; There
+were, perhaps, 800 playing; one set of wickets was close to
+another on all sides, and it was marvellous the game could go on
+without serious accidents.&nbsp; A sergeant of police that
+happened to be passing told me it looked most dangerous, and
+nothing would induce him to join; but a youth, who was playing,
+said the accidents were very few,&mdash;although at first he was
+much frightened, yet the danger was not so great as it
+appeared.</p>
+<p>The purchase of the eighteen acres would relieve this ground,
+enable some of the clubs to go to Primrose Hill, and cricket
+could be properly and joyfully played, and space would be given
+for many who now very much wish to play but cannot.</p>
+<p>I have only to add, that should next Saturday afternoon prove
+fine, any gentleman, about five o&rsquo;clock in the afternoon,
+may ascertain how painful to witness is the present over-crowded
+cricket ground of the Regent&rsquo;s Park.</p>
+<p>I have the honour to be, Sir,</p>
+<p style="text-align: right">Your obedient Servant,<br />
+<span class="smcap">William Ray Smee</span>.</p>
+<p>Regent&rsquo;s Park North,<br />
+
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+10<i>th</i> <i>May</i>, 1873.</p>
+
+<div class="gapmediumline">&nbsp;</div>
+<p style="text-align: right"><a name="page12"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 12</span><span class="smcap">William Ray
+Smee</span>, <span class="smcap">Esq</span>., </p>
+<p>Sir,</p>
+<p>Mr. Gladstone desires me to inform you that your letter of the
+10th inst. should have been addressed to the First Commissioner
+of Works.</p>
+<p>I am, Sir,</p>
+<p style="text-align: right">Your obedient Servant,<br />
+W. E. <span class="smcap">Gurdon</span>.</p>
+<p>10, Downing Street,<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 15<i>th</i>
+<i>May</i>, 1873.</p>
+
+<div class="gapmediumline">&nbsp;</div>
+<p>This closes the correspondence, and upon reflection it will be
+apparent that a great nation can find no better and no more
+economical use for a little mite of surplus revenue than its
+judicious employment in providing space for healthy, innocent,
+and cheap out-door amusement.&nbsp; The money so spent on behalf
+of the population of this gigantic capital will double itself
+over and over again.&nbsp; It is the active and the healthy that
+make a nation progress.&nbsp; It is good sound sense, united with
+a vigorous frame, that enables the man, advantageously to
+himself, to augment the receipts of the British exchequer.</p>
+
+<div class="gapspace">&nbsp;</div>
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