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PREFACE.
PREFACE.
The main object sought to be attained in this correspondence was to induce the Government to purchase two plots of land adjoining Primrose Hill Park, together about eighteen acres, that space may be given to a great and rapidly-increasing population for football and cricket. It is probable most persons who know the wants of the district will be of opinion that it is very desirable this should be done. Every summer’s evening there is, in the small space of ground now available in the Regent’s P
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LETTERS.
LETTERS.
The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone , M.P., &c., &c. Sir , Knowing the great and arduous duties you have to perform I regret being obliged to call your attention to a very small affair, but the case is urgent, and in a few months buildings will be placed upon a portion of the ground. Primrose Hill Park is very much used by boys as a cricket or foot-ball ground, and on Saturdays there is not enough space. Even to-day, with the ground wet and weather not inviting, it was full, and in t
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