Coloured postcard of a view of the Foreign Office, looking across flower beds in St James's Park. Ink: This is a lovely day. Aunt Bertha & four cousins is coming to Ayr on Friday to stay with Grannie With our love John [rest of signature illegible] [address in Bridge-of-Allan supplied]. St James's Park occupies a site formerly owned by Cardinal Wolsey, which Henry VIII acquired, and which was landscaped under James I; it was remodelled in the French formal style under Charles II, and opened to the public; it was relandscaped by John Nash in the 1820s