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Working drawing for fitting out the library and Mr Thornton's room, May 1810

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The drawing lacks room labels but from drawings 46 and 66, the larger room can be identified as the library on the north-east side and the smaller one as Mr Thornton's room in the middle of the east side. For a photograph of the large round-arched window to the library see P.Dean, Sir John Soane and the country estate, 1999, p.128 (9.8).

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