Louisa Jones to Niall Hobhouse
I also forwarded your last e-mail to Gilles. He had not understood exactly what was involved, he says. I think maybe Hadspen is so famous in the UK that you assume too much prior knowledge away from the British context? It took me a while to remember why that name was familiar and it probably isn’t to Gilles at all, so he did not know, as I did not, that you were the new owner. However I don’t know if he will answer, he says (in his mail to me) that he agrees that to begin with paths already laid out is the wrong approach. What you have and what you seem to want to do seems worlds apart from his approach. But perhaps this is not true, since you are so interested in what he does. I don’t know. But I think it will seem this way to him.