[15] Letter, dated 15 May 1791

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  - Barons Court, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland; designs for alterations and additions for 1st Marquess of Abercorn, 1789-1795 (24)
    - Letter, dated 15 May 1791

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Reference number

SM 29/2/3

Purpose

[15] Letter, dated 15 May 1791

Aspect

Instructions concerning building materials and workmen and with two sketch plans for the eating room and bath, and servants hall and housekeeper's room

Inscribed

Barons Court / Particulars of / Materials wanted and Armagh to Lurgan (?) fine Country 14 Miles // Strabane May 15 1791 / For the Alterations proposed in the Hall front / rooms & which are to be completed with all / possible speed / 10 or 15 Loads ^ ^{or Tons}of fir timber Memel, Riga / or Dantzig must be immediately procured / Ferguson with others will do the Carpentry / Work of the Alterations to the present / Hall, as settled with M^rM^cfarlane / Masons must be sought - M^r(?) Blane who / is at Work at Lord Bristol is recommended / Lime & Scaffolding must be provided, a / small quantity easily ascertained by the / Workmen will be sufficient. / Floorings for the Hall to correspond with / the Eating Room & Withdrawing room / the Stone & bricks in the / walls on each side of / the Hall proposed to be / taken down will be sufficient // for building the Wall when the Columns / now are between the Hall & best Staircase / It will be right to make some bricks / at each place examined to ascertain the / quality // For the new Wings &c / 150 loads of Me----- (illegible) Timber to be imported as soon as possible / 250 M of Bricks / Stone from the walls by Roadside next / the Lake to be taken down & / brought up to the Building / Lime, Sand & Scaffolding / 3 0 of 2½ or 3 Inch yellow deal / 3 0 2½ or 3 Inch white deal / As M^rM^cfarlane is in possession / of the manner & extent of the // alterations & as a proper person will be / sent to superintend the Works it is / presumed no difficulties will arise but / what will be easily removed; it is only ^earnestly / requested that every exertion may be / made to procure the Materials & Workmen / as soon as possible, & that not a / moment should be lost in completing the / business // J. Soane // with sketch plan of Eating Room and of adjacent Bath labelled Hot and Cold and Mezzanine over / for Vapor / Bath & / (?) Ice Po-p-- (illegible) and of Servants / Hall and Keepers signed J. Soane

Signed and dated

15 May 1791
May 15 1791

Medium and dimensions

Brown pen on laid secretary paper with three fold marks (220 x 360)

Hand

SOANE, Sir John (1754--1837), architect
Soane

Watermark

Crowned cartouche with hunting horn and GR below

Level

Drawing

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