In reply to yours of 20th I am sorry to say that I should not at all like such an arrangment as you propose. I cannot write in a popular way upon my subject and I have no gift for public speaking. I could not make myself heard by such an audience as might assemble on the mountain, nor if I could should I be likely to long hold its attention.

But I might write a semi scientific treatise on Public Parks with special reference to the conditions presented by the city of Montreal and by the topography of Mount Royal and I could read such a paper intelligibly to a considerable audience under favorable circumstances. I have done something of this kind in other cities with good results.

I should prefer to address particularly the class of men indicated in the opening of my last letter to you, and those conservative citizens who while well disposed to philanthropic and educational interests look with some jealousy upon the park as an extravagent play thing by which the city is liable to be drawn into excessive expenditures.

The success of the park scheme in Buffalo was largely influenced by getting a small hall full of such people together with the Common Council by special invitations, opportunity being given at the end of my lecture for questions and debate.

This might not be a convenient or proper way of proceeding in your case & I only mention it to show you how my judgment points.

But I know I could do nothing out of doors & that there is no place on the mountain in which my plans could be suitably shown and explained.