Letter 2962

Eyre surveyed Mrs Gardner’s land and discovered several problems. He would prefer ‘3 or 4 akers where you first propos’d in ye farther Corner of Anderson’s field’. Eyre hopes to ‘entertain you with some fruits from my own labour’ in the near future. Kingsmill Eyre (1682-1743) was the Secretary of Chelsea Hospital, a post he secured in 1716 with the help of Robert Walpole. In 1718 he was appointed Secretary to the Commissioners of Chelsea College. Eyre designed Wapole’s garden at Houghton, Norfolk, and worked with William Wood on a method of making iron, which they patented in 1727. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1726 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsmill_Eyre).