Letter from Herbert Maxwell [Sir Herbert Maxwell] to William Robinson
Information
Title
Letter from Herbert Maxwell [Sir Herbert Maxwell] to William Robinson
Record type
Archive
Original Reference
WRO/2/122
Date
18 Oct 1917
Scope & content
Written from 1 St James’s Place, [London] SW1. Manuscript
He has received Robinson’s essay on wood fires and is grateful; where he lives wood and peat are plentiful but all modern chimneys and hearths are constructed to burn coal brought from afar; he regrets that people have been misled into neglect of natural advantages; years ago he took an English friend fishing in a loch on his property and due to rain they retreated to the boatman’s cottage, where the peat fire had not been out for 27 years; this cottage is now fitted with grates requiring coal; the ash from properly constructed wood and peat fires is also of value as a fertiliser for root crops