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Project: The Old Lighthouse
Date: October 2, 1925
Physical description: ink on paper
Dimensions: 9 x 7 inches
Note: Includes a description of the property and was sent with photographs (two are included below) and drawings (see "Scale plan of garden", "Plan of treatment of NW corner", and "Sketch of lily pond and rockery"). Beardsell makes detailed requests for the garden plan and identifies specific areas of consideration and special site issues. Despite Beardsell's request in an earlier letter that Jekyll make a site visit to personally survey the property before creating a garden plan, Jekyll adamantly did not leave her home at Munstead Wood in the later years of her life to make site visits. She relied on plans, descriptions (such as this one), and photographs sent by clients to create her garden plans.
first page of letter
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Project: The Old Lighthouse
Date: 1925
Physical description: pencil on trace
Dimensions: 20 x 30 inches
Note: The three drawings below accompanied a letter and photographs from the client. This sketch is described in the letter as "roughly accurate". The lighthouse is up the path marked "X" near reference point "D". Reference points in this drawing correspond with photographs below.
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Title: Plan of treatment of Northwest corner
Date: 1925
Physical description: pencil on coated trace
Dimensions: 10 x 10 inches
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Title: Sketch of lily pond and rockery
Date: 1925
Physical description: pencil on coated trace
Dimensions: 19 x 20 inches
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Project: The Old Lighthouse
Date: 1925
Physical description: photographs
Dimensions: 5 x 7 inches each
Note: These photographs were taken by the client and sent to Jekyll before she designed the garden plan. "X" in the first photograph indicates the path leading up to a terrace of the lighthouse. The second photograph shows the terrace about 2.5 feet above the lawn level (later paved with flagstone) and a burr wall 6-7 feet high. The first photograph shows area "C-D" referenced in the drawing "Scale plan of garden" and the second photograph shows wall "A-C" referenced in the same drawing.
letter insert/photograph 1, back to top
letter insert/photograph 2, back to top
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