Coloured postcard of the flower garden in the Royal Botanic Society's Gardens in Regent's Park. Ink: 19/11/06 Dearest Cousin A. / just a line to thank you so much for the "pattern" which you enclosed for me in Mothers letter last week, I like it very much indeed & shall certainly try & make something that way as soon as I can find time. How are yo? I hope quite well! I have had rather a nasty cold for this past fortnight but I'm only following the "fashion" as they tell me, we have it very damp & foggy here I am wondering what it's like at Copplestone" better than here I expect. All sends there love Mother will write soon & please except many thanks much love your loving cousin M [address in Copplestone supplied]. Regent's Park was originally intended to be the grounds of an estate created by John Nash for the Prince Regent, but by the time work was underway the Prince Regent had taken Buckingham House as his residence. Regent's Park was opened to the public in the 1830s. The inner circle was from 1840 to 1930 the site of the Royal Botanic Society's garden, designed by Robert Marnock; after that society folded, it was developed by Duncan Campbell as Queen Mary's Rose Garden. At the north end of the park is the London Zoo, laid out by Decimus Burton for the Zoological Society of London in the 1820s, and opened to the public in 1847