1845-06-14 Bigelow Chapel Stained Glass: Jacob Bigelow to Ballantine & Allan (page 1)

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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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