Beschreibung:

Autograph letter signed ("Ludwig Wittgenstein") to Rev. John Burnaby, chair of the Trinity College Garden Committee ("Dear Burnaby"), thanking him for removing the border of veronica ("...the bed didn't seem to me to look vulgar any longer...") and suggesting further improvements by removing the border of short dahlias ("...like a cake which one's put somewhere where it has no business to be... a hybrid between a bed & what one might call a screen... the kidney shape asks for something more formal..."), perhaps planting dahlias through the middle of "...a low (2" or 3") absolutely inconspicuous plant...", including three diagrams by way of illustration, and ending "...Possibly this won't work either...it's only a suggestion...", 2 pages on lined paper, dust-staining and marks, creased at folds, discolouration along horizontal fold, 4to (235 x 174mm.), Trinity College, 5 November [19]34