As usual, Mr. Lanham began his day in the garden, which he wrote “is a picture in the half shade.” He cut some “fine roses, especially some that purport to be Duchess of Luxembourg, but look like Los Angeles.” I could find pictures of neither, so I will let him be the judge!
Despite heavy clouds and some rain in the afternoon, he and Julia Anne journeyed…
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