Niall Hobhouse to Richard Mellersh
Thanks for this, and for your encouragement about the project. I’m also full of complicated regret about the passing of the Pope’s planting … which is why I’m keen to distribute some of their achievement to anybody who feels strongly enough about what they did … Also the garden in its present state is now so much the property of its plants, and this is beautiful. I’d prefer it if you confined the take to the walled ‘D’ area, but if there is something by the pond you have to have then go ahead. Many years from now we hope to be able to ask you for some cuttings.