Correspondence, 1912-1913: Design and construction

Letter from William Gray Purcell to George Grant Elmslie (October 2, 1913)

 Excerpt from office correspondence:

"...I am sending under separate cover a sawed panel for the Little Joker. Will you please insert your sprightly "Gray Days and Gold" in the corner and have the thing sawed. Nobody up here can saw it. I imagine that it ought to be cut from white wood, or at any event wood that does not have to be glued to get the width; that it should be sawed two thicknesses and the inner surfaces transposed to form the outer, leaving the frayed edge inside. I will have them soaked in oil for a good while before erecting. Panel is now framed at the building to receive exact full size as you have it. Will send size of panel for chimney sawing in a day or so..."
 

research courtesy mark hammons