JANUARY 22nd
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“What can be more pleasing, than to see the work of ones own hands, fostered by care and attention, rising to maturity in a beautiful display.”
Edward Newenham. New York Public Library
To Sir Edward Newenham
Mount Vernon, 20 April 1787
The manner in which you employ your time at Bell Champ (in raising nurseries of fruit, forest trees, and Shrubs) must not only contribute to your health and amusement, but it is certainly among the most rational avocations of life; for what can be more pleasing, than to see the work of ones own hands, fostered by care and attention, rising to maturity in a beautiful display of those advantages and ornaments which by the Combination of Nature and taste of the projector in the disposal of them is always regaling to the eye at the sametime in their seasons they are a[s] grateful to the palate.
I should have much pleasure in admiring your skill in the propogation and disposal of these things in a visit to Bell Champ. but declining health and an anxious wish to spend the remainder of my days in retirement will fix me to Mount Vernon and a small circle round it whilst I tread on this Theatre.
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