Correspondence, 1912-1913: Design and construction

Telegram from William Gray Purcell to George Grant Elmslie (May 12, 1913)

PERKY JOKER CORKING RIGHT TRACK BELIEVE AXIS TRANSVERSE LOT ACCOUNT STEEP GRADE GUEST MAID DEMAND DIGNIFIED DOWNWARD APPROACH PLEASE SHOOT ANOTHER FOLLOWING LATEST WIRES FORGETTING WALLER REFERENCES USED FOR TRANSMISSION EIGHT SEVENTY ABOUT AREA LIMIT WINTER LIGHT AWFULLY SOFT TRY FOR BIGGER FEWER MULLIONLESS PICTURE WINDOWS EXCEPT GREAT LIVING ROOM

W. G. PURCELL

Additional typescript text following transcription:

In order to keep this at all within the limit of cost we have not only got to cut right back to the expression of the mechanics of the living arrangements but we have got to eliminate the multiplication of passages, wall scraps, recesses and all those things which make the "many many many" idea....particularly the multiplication of casement windows in long groups.

Besides your fight for light here in the winter like a green house man trying to cut back his bars for light. We must do the impossible...get the story book character but in glass surrounded with house instead of the Perigord sort of thing. WELL that's your job...thank you. EDNA WAS very much captivated with the poetry of the thing...well...she was willing to withhold judgment on some of the practicalities.....
 

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