Mount Auburn Cemetery

Randolph Rogers conveyance of J Adams statue.

Dr Jacob Bigelow Boston United States

Canada

25¢

{stamp: Boston Aug 13 24} {stamp: Liverpool AU 1 1857 7}

[stamp: 19 cents]

{stamp: PAKENHAM HOOKER ROME}

Randolph Rogers, Rome Notice of draft for $1500. May 24 1856

to America

Doct Jacob Bigelow Boston United States

[stamp: 19 cents]

[stamp: Boston 29 JUN 24]

[stamp: Liverpool JU 7 1856 A]

per Steamer via Liverpool Erikson

Jacob Bigelow president of Mt Auburn Cemetery Boston Mass. U.S. America

[stamp: in black ink BOSTON 14 JUN 24] [stamp: in black ink, LIVERPOOL MY29 1856] [stamp:in blue ink, PAKENHAM HOOKER & Co ROME.] [stamp: in black ink, 3 CENTS]

Thomas Crawford Notice of draft for $2500, Rome May 21 1856

(copy)

Boston (America) June 14th 1845

Messrs Ballantine & Allan

Gentlemen

I have the pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of 21^st April with the accompanying designs for colored windows. With a few exceptions, hereafter to be stated, these designs are approved and much admired, and you are requested immediately to make for us the two large windows conformably to the paper shapes or patterns which are ^now forwarded by the Cambria steamer ^rolled up in a tin box, care of Harnden & Co, Liverpool, and will reach you soon in a few days after this letter.

Nave Window.

Please to notice that the cast iron window frames, which are now made, have undergone some slight alterations from the lithographic designs. The great circular central space in the Nave window has 12 hemicircles, or indentations instead of 8, and the small arches ^are higher & more acute & have also more hemicircles. All this appears in the paper daylight patterns, which you will follow exactly. ^The mullions are shorter now than in the lithograph plan. The Rose window is unaltered.

In the Nave window you will fill the large perpendicular lights and all the smaller

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trusting that you will not introduce new objects, except variations of clouds, and disperse the light & shadows in an artistic manner.

In the Rose window you will use (not the apostles heads) but instead of them the foliated compartments, or designs, marked 7 & 8 in your plan^ both alternately if you think it best.^ Next within these insert ^alternately the arabesques, or foliated panes which you have marked 1 and 2, (and not the mosaic marked 3.)

In the large roll which accompanies this, you will find paper patterns cut to the exact shape and size of the daylight pannels [sic], with a lithographic sketch numbered to correspond. You will also find the sketches of the great central design, already alluded to. We will pay you on delivery ^ to our agent in London or Liverpool ^ one hundred pounds sterling for the nave window, and one hundred & fifteen pounds s. for the rose window, if executed conformably to the foregoing instructions, and delivered to our agent in London or Liverpool as aforesaid on or before the first day of March next.

[this next paragraph has been crossed out in pencil]

Immediately after the receipt of this, please to inform me if you accept the commission, as above stated, -- also what is ^the thickness of your pannels ^ in the frame & material which holds them., ^ and what should be the exact shape & depth of the rebats into which the glazier is to set them. Before cutting out the paper patterns, half an inch was deducted from the space all round, which will be occupied by a wooden rebat to which the glass will be cemented. For further explanations ^ made by the mechanic, please read the patterns