MISS ETHELDRED BENETT (1775-1845): HER CORRESPONDENCE 31 
Chimnies so high as to make it dangerous at all times 
to get to the top for necessary repairs even. Our only 
two sitting rooms and the best spare bedroom are 
supposed to be impracticable to a machine; the 
Chimnies are in the principal Walls of the House, and 
the House 200 years old this year; so a pretty prospect 
we have of shaking it all to pieces, to say nothing of 
the expence and inconvenience if we should have to 
change the direction of the Chimnies. I hear that 
Lord Heytesbury, who enlarged and new fitted up his 
House at a great expence and five years ago, is now 
obliged to pull to pieces two of the sitting rooms and 
one other at a very considerable expence from this 
cause. 
A letter of 12 September 1841 to her brother-in- 
law, A.B. Lambert (1761-1842) reflects her wide 
interests and views: 
We have told our clerical friends of the wants of the 
New Zealand Church, but clergymen are scarce in 
this Neighbourhood. I have the fossil you speak of for 
Pity thre fox 
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pu base Lea Zé 4 Pr wl . 
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be virefalls emplaze J Ye tactile 
sonun obentiane trteley Pa Vat fporvise pretl 
fjudeed Pit Paconenegerp Ole 
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Ss A Va~ LPL 
pes yrerrey Joe 
inypeby yor Tire relied Leflore J Cnrea bee 
BROT arn Tie ee 
<< Gent. La Nod: yz. 
Dr. Mantell sent it to me many years ago from Tilgate 
Forest, a small specimen too, which is much more 
valuable to me than a large one. He gave a very fine 
large one to the British Museum, which I have seen 
there. Thanks for your account of it. Thanks also for 
mentioning the Shells, but you know they are things 
one could not purchase without seeing them, and 
perhaps I may have half of them already, which even 
if cheap would bring those I wanted dear, as a Lady 
would get nothing for her duplicates. I pick up a few 
here and there and so get on with them; I start on a 
‘frisk’ in my Pony carriage tomorrow with the 
intention of going as far as Southampton for a couple 
of days, if not stopp’d by the forest flies on the way; 
but I have a horror of them, they make horses almost 
frantic, and if I should get so far, shall probably get a 
few shells there, at least I did so last time. The 
brilliancy of the gardens is now on the decline but 
they are still gay and while the present sunshine lasts 
the flowers will perk up their heads, but the heavy 
rains will spoil most of them; the Yucca filamentosa is 
pfu Ae toc fe world fee abou ip fe 
) Huth feat Uf Fem Shot tg tot na Joney 
spictabrlyy few Th toni» Khe ser Vier, privec 
who gael Pe oe STIR or pee Mead, Chee bree 
not four cl wm flac. neyular worfed 72 ; 
tut Vhey Arvo wher. Zo Hes yor titern, end donnie 
onty po vo when. pied fe AST Be Gloet lie vale 
of Phe; where I have yt tite npfoheFeer te 
Wierd 3 wm wr WLecd Sf yr Gil. free _ 
Bae ay pir ree wnPae ered wrafes 
Jon He wlonBencG pom ILO Soa ann 
eee a say 
Bpbclnedt Whereas f1a Peiclibrecl 0 aba 
b tyork pekidirge a 
“Wy Vo) SAA. ke 
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Box tn etre Villy ferr dteyppoip #0 
Lage eh JS ce-fain Aone. Se 
Po meet yor ole Beer tir Wie brit Wyiceh 
he. far eHrred ficem. —— : 
Letter to Mantell (14 November 1842) that comments on his mis-spelling of her Christian name 
