Title:
Letter to G. Jekyll from Sir W. Beardsell
Creator/Contributor:
Beardsell, Sir W, Client
Date:
October 2, 1925
Note:
Includes a description of the property and was sent with photographs (two are included below) and drawings (see "Scale plan
of garden", "Plan of treatment of NW corner", and "Sketch of lily pond and rockery"). Beardsell makes detailed requests for
the garden plan and identifies specific areas of consideration and special site issues. Despite Beardsell's request in an
earlier letter that Jekyll make a site visit to personally survey the property before creating a garden plan, Jekyll adamantly
did not leave her home at Munstead Wood in the later years of her life to make site visits. She relied on plans, descriptions
(such as this one), and photographs sent by clients to create her garden plans
Physical Description:
; 9 x 7 inches
ink on paper
From:
Old Lighthouse, The, St. Margaret's-at-Cliffe, Kent, England, 1925
Contributing Institution:
UC Berkeley, Environmental Design Archives