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Singapore 3th. September 1922 
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Dear flg Marriott, 
You will remember that 1 asked you a couple of 
months back if you could help me to gather the early history 
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of Tyersal and you said that you thought it possible* I am 
writing to you about it now. 
I understand that in I860 there stiod a house on the site of 
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Tyersal occupied by, I believe, the Chief Justice.(Question 
Ij Is this rightfj The approach to the house would be by the 
present road: the low grounds were planted with coconuts and 
mangosteens, for their stunts were exposed last year in the 
course of draining the lakes* Kapler owned the property. In 
I860 the Gardens cooly lines were placed by the stream enter¬ 
ing the Gardens from Tyersal i.e. where the Dell is now - 
obviously for the convenience of water. Soon after i860 the 
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State of Johore Mtf acquired the/property -/Is this right? | 
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Ui ^ an<i avenue of Tembusu trees from Holland road to the house 
tcfyu. H+U** planted (Mr. S ea h Leang Seah tells me this) 
In 1855 -66, the Government of the Colony acquired the drive 
planted with tembusu s, from Holland road to the^gates of 
Tyex’sal together with the bit of land between it and the 
centre of the Gardens lake (then a swamp) and made ^ the 
drive into a public r^&d (garden road) ; carrying it a bit 
obliquely northwards along the then - west boundary of the 
Gardens (see map in Gardens Bulletin II Ho. 2 p. 56 herewith) 
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and threw the bit of land between the drive and the centre of 
of the Gardens lakes into the Gardens.The addition of this 
bit of land made the making of the Gardens’ Lake possible and 
it was made and the cooly lines removed £ then ? 
or later} J 
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