"Entertaining the Islanders" 1933 BURT, Struthers

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BURT, Struthers [458] pp. Charles Scribner's Sons 1933 First Edition 7 1/2" x 5 1/2" Cover artwork by R. Duvoisi VG In 1825 Sir Peregrine Wilder was the British governor, and one a fternoon driving about the outskirts of the town with Lady Wilder, and feeling very much like God, he pointed to a bottle-shaped swamp that ran in from the harbor between low hills, and said, I think there IS the spot for our botanical garden. Unconsciously he chose the swamp because it was the hardest possible place to start a botanical garden, and that afternoon, as has been said, he felt very much like God and very English. Show more