Wren, Christopher. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("CHR WREN"), TO SIR WILLIAM FERMOR providing detailed practical advice over his building plans at Easton Neston including the appropriate height of garden walls and the construction of greenhouses, hoping that work would soon continue on the main house ("...I hope you provide to carry up one story at least of the great house next yeare it will be better worke to give it time to settle the stone & brick together..."), and advising him in particular to purchase timber that will provide high quality floor boards ("...the boardes that are there are only for your pigsties..."), 1 page, folio, 5 September [1685-1687], with integral address leaf, mounted, framed and glazed, seal tear, nicks at folds
Wren, Christopher. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("CHR WREN"), TO SIR WILLIAM FERMOR providing detailed practical advice over his building plans at Easton Neston including the appropriate height of garden walls and the construction of greenhouses, hoping that work would soon continue on the main house ("...I hope you provide to carry up one story at least of the great house next yeare it will be better worke to give it time to settle the stone & brick together..."), and advising him in particular to purchase timber that will provide high quality floor boards ("...the boardes that are there are only for your pigsties..."), 1 page, folio, 5 September [1685-1687], with integral address leaf, mounted, framed and glazed, seal tear, nicks at folds
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