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Book: Landscape Gardening and Landscape Architecture, edited by John Claudius Loudon (J.C.L )
Chapter: Biography of the Late Humphry Repton, Esq.

Appointment by William Wyndham

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The result of this letter was, that he accompanied Mr. William Wyndham to Ireland, as his confidential Secretary; and the succeeding two months were passed in all the excitement which scenes so new were likely to create. Public and private dinners at which he was present, anecdotes of Mrs. Siddons (with whom he lived in the same house), descriptions of Irish scenery and manners, and animated sketches illustrative of the character and opinions of his patron-all furnish materials for observation, which, however interesting, must be here passed over.