Sir Robert Peel to John Murray, 7 July 1840: 'I forgot to thank you for the last edition of the Handbook, but I have found leisure to look into it, and have read many parts of it with great interest. It is really a useful and amusing work for those who do not travel. Do not you think that a very interesting work might be written, to be entitled, "A Historical Account of the Celebrated Villas in the Neighbourhood of London? I mean rather the villas that [italics]have[end italics] been, rather than those that now exist [makes various suggestions of villas for inclusion] [...] Perhaps I overrate the interest with which such a book would be read. I certainly do not, if it would equal that with which I myself read the account of places in the neighbourhood of Paris, remarkable in history, but the traces of many of which are fast fading away'.