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Letter from A. R. Wallace to his son William from Broadstone, Wimborne (Dorset), 18 Oct 1902 re progress of house building; extra expense and days lost through replacement of faulty windows, re-hanging a door, missing door locks and window glass of wrong thickness (ink sketches of windows and door latches on two pages) ; bills of £120 this month, economy needed; bookshelves fitted in study but no shelves elsewhere, house full of unpacked crates; work on garden and greenhouse; sheep, cattle and horses nibbling plants; "Manx Codlen" and "Northern Greening" apples in orchard; teak front door begun; parrot now well and beginning to talk. Place: Broadstone Dorset England Notes: 2 folios. OLD REF Letters re houses and building: WP1/19/4/13 |
