My dear Cousin

I shall be glad to make the drawing of Elston, though it will not be easy, as the perspective is all wrong, and it is such a “birds’-eye” view— That country is so very flat, that unless they took the view from the top of the Church Tower, I do not know how they managed it— The Farm buildings must be left out, and I must be allowed to put in some judicious bushes in the foreground to break the line of that fatal wall— also I cannot in conscience take it from the exact centre, like an elevation,

If my drawing does not turn out satisfactory I can but copy the old drawing with just a few corrections—²

I will take it for granted you agree to all this, and if I can make out anything in answer to your questions about D^r. Darwin will write again. I am but a poor rememberer of stories, and do not even know the Highway robber story— M^rs. Nixon must tell it me—she is a near neighbour—& she has the enviable talent of recollecting these things with the when & the where, & the who—³

I remain | Yours very affect^ly | V. H. Darwin