Uncoloured postcard of a view from the Palm House across the lake to Museum no. 1 at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Ink: Dear Aunt Minnie Our club party takes place to-morrow & I very much want to take Tommie, Minnie would be pleased, & if you do not mind I would be glad if you would send him to our house by 5.30 sure Lena would not mind the trouble & I will gladly bring him home quite safe & promise to take care of him sorry I have not been able to come & tell you about it as I quite hoped to so please excuse me waking up at the death Sincerely hoping you are much better [?] & love to all. Eliza [address in Kennington supplied]. The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew were formerly the grounds of Kew Palace, and developed as a botanic garden by the Earl of Bute, followed by Sir Joseph Banks; after a report compiled by John Lindley, Joseph Paxton, and John Wilson, they were officially designated the Royal Botanic Gardens, with Sir William Jackson Hooker as their first Director, in 1843. Sir William Chambers' orangery and rocky arch survive, along with various later temples; the major buildings created in the 1840s and after were the Palm House, the Victoria House, and the Temperate House. The rock garden was created in the 1880s