| Description | 8 Jan 1890
2 Holland Park Road, Kensington
Dear Mr King
I have to acknowledge your letter of the 6th inst. informing me that the Lower Thames Valley Branch of the Selborne Society is energetically at work to save Sudbrook Park from the encroachment of the builder. I earnestly wish you success in so good a cause, and one of importance to so many. Your lovely Park, with its wide wild spaces and its sweet fresh air, is, and is daily more and more becoming a priceless possession to the inhabitants of this black and monstrous metropolis; and it is so in its most frequented part perhaps in great measure from the fact that Sudbrook Park shields it as a bulwark against smoke and bricks and mortar. I sincerely trust it may never lose that protection; for I feel that the breaking down of this barrier would have most mischievous results in many ways. I think public opinion will be warmly in your favour and will strengthen your hands. Certainly my very best wishes follow you in your present endeavours.
I am yours faithfully
Fred Leighton
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