"Entertaining the Islanders" 1933 BURT, Struthers
$150
BURT, Struthers
[458] pp.
Charles Scribner's Sons
1933
First Edition
7 1/2" x 5 1/2"
Cover artwork by R. Duvoisin
In 1825 Sir Peregrine Wilder was the British governor, and one afternoon 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.