Autograph letter signed to Sir John Coxe Hippisley

Edward Adolphus Seymour, eleventh Duke of Somerset (1775-1855), agriculturist, etc. Three pages, 4to. His correspondent was Sir John Hippisley who, among many avocations, pursued agricultural science which is the main topic of this letter. Somerset is pleased to see the books of General Beatson, former lt gen in the East India Company and Governor of St Helena, but also an experimental agriculturist. The books were presumably about agriculture and which indicate to Somerset a great improvement in some agricultural development (perhaps Beatson's "A New System of Cultivation without Lime or Dung, or Summer Fallowing as practised at Knole Farm, Sussex" (London, 1820) has something to do with it). Somerset will be attending a ploughing match. He invites Hippisley to meet him at an exhibition. He says that Lord Bath showed him some plans for cottages which "Mre Underwood had drawn for you or for Lord Cork, and which I thought particularly well contrived.