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accompany the Manuscript? Or shall I write to him without
any such letter? —

2. Getting a model made of the Building. This is necessary
on several accounts.
1. To serve as a Basis of negotiation for the Building contract
2. To enable me to settle a number of details respecting which
a variety of information not to be obtained but from persons
conversant in building will be necessary to me.
3. To serve as a basis of negotiation for the management-contract
4. To serve as a basis of calculation, or at least of conjecture,
with regard to the expence of Building.

As to the details of Construction they cannot be definitively settled, nor —
consequently the building contract made till some sort of
settlement is come to with regard to the choice of the Manufacture.
For suppose a peculiarly-promising manufacture
offers and the mode of construction fixed upon is such as
puts a negative upon it? It will be my study however to
give it every latitude, and I have hit upon expedients for
the purpose.

What Architect to apply to? Such a man as Mr
Blackburne perhaps would give advise, and some pupil
of his might be got to execute the Model. I could come at
Mr Blackburne I believe by means of a common friend.
I have some little knowledge of a very ingenious Man, a
Mr Revely, but I know not whether he has ever turned his
thoughts to this particular line.

The idea of having a model was your suggestion. I
had forgot that my Brother had one made which was actually
before me. But I question whether in conversation we sufficiently
seperated the business of getting the Model and that of

Identifier: | JB/117/041/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	041	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::edmeads & pine [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	edward cooke
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 711, vol. 4	ID Number	38658
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