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borough, by private treaty, his estate of Waddesdon Tokenhouse Yard in the spring of the year but en consisted of 2700 acres, to which I have since ial estate for some time, and could I have obtained farm land, arable chiefly, with neither a house nor listance of six miles from Aylesbury, the nearest was not even the prospect of one coming into the Waddesdon with its defects and its drawbacks—of oyed up with illusions and beguiled by the belief t by a direct line of railway, the first sod of which vour: it had a bracing and salubrious air, pleasant villadom. s In quest of an architect, and decided on the late chitects of the Dukes of Orleans, while he himself ation of the Chateau of the Duc de Mouchy. he site for the house. This being settled, he left h landscape gardener, was bidden to make designs ty be asked, what induced me to employ foreign My reply is, that having been greatly impressed