LETTER XXIII 



Fine Weather Flowers Picture Difficulty of procuring Models 

 Trip to Marlborough Cheltenham Cirencester Fairford 

 Lechlade Kelmscott W. Morris Old House Old Inn at 

 Lechlade Horse drowned in River Cuckoo. 



23 th June 1889. 



DEAR MARCO The weather has been 

 wonderfully fine since Whitsuntide, the 

 flowers in my garden more beautiful than I 

 ever saw them before, but the warfare with 

 snails and weeds has been a severe struggle, 

 and only partially successful. Thanks to the 

 birds, we have not suffered from the plague 

 of caterpillars which I hear has been so pre- 

 valent in places this year. My strawberries 

 are very large and fine, and as they and the 

 roses are just now in full swing, I have given 

 up all thoughts of coming up to the soiree at 

 the Academy. 



