Thanks, and noted.

I see the current project (competition and website) as both a defence of my razing of the Popes’ garden, and a way of ‘dealing’ with its passing.Their letter is in itself the single most powerful,and durable,outcome of my project, but also of all efforts past and future to garden on that site;I expect it to be quoted for years to come, and I am very proud to have provoked it, if that is what I did. And remember that we - Nori, Sandra and I - were working with FOA on a new approach to the garden for a yearbefore N and S left for Canada; it was N’s health that then precipitated their departure much earlier than planned.

And I would be happy to try and explain to you why it would have been dodging the issue to start a new garden elsewhere o the Estate; but I would prefer to do this afteryou have seen whatever-it-is that next gets made on the site, and then only if you still feel the need of explanation.

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