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Papers re A. R. Wallace's house "Old Orchard" at Broadstone, Dorset, including plans, elevations, sketched views, rough ground plans, photographs, postcards and accounts. Place: Broadstone Dorset England Notes: Found in Box 4 of the material as delivered, incorrectly identified in broad box list as plans of Parkstone house. Identified from photograph of the house in A. R. Wallace's "My Life" vol.2; plans 1 and 2 dated from letters by A. R. Wallace to his children on the subject. Though the drawings have not title as such "Parkstone" on the sheet indicates A. R. Wallace's address at the time the plans were drawn up, not the address of the house to be built. Conservation: Plan 1, very damaged and brittle, 5; copy, in better condition but needs to be unfolded, 4; other pieces 2. |
