STOURTON and GASPER HISTORY

Dear Stourton

Thank you very much indeed for the excellent lunch you gave me on Thursday, and I greatly enjoyed our conversation.

I hope that you had a successful visit to the Armourer at the Tower of London, and would be interested to know if he gave you any indication of their value. The question as to where and how they should be looked after, after they have been cleaned is not easy to resolve in these days when there is so much robbery going on everywhere.

I do not think that much has been reported about what the Dowsers discovered, and Mr Gordon Robertson the present curator at Stourhead has not been able to help, but he thinks that Anthony Mitchell, who is in charge of all the National Trust propertieas in this part of the world may know something, and I am meeting him shortly and will find out if he knows anything of interest and where particularly the Dowsers consider that the secret passages are.

I have not done anything more about aerial photographs. Gordon Robertson does not think any more have been taken since the ones we had done in 1965. Again many thanks for the lunch.

Yours Sincerely

Rennie Hoare