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Contents of a folder labelled 'Farrell-Jencks Letters 1978-1983'.

The file comprises letters between Maggie and Charles, Terry Farrell and staff at the Farrell/Grimshaw Partnership and Terry Farrell Partnership. Letters from Terry Farrell and his firm form the majority of the file; there are also some copy letters from Maggie and Charles, as well as photocopied correspondence from other parties, notes taken at meetings (manuscript and typescript) and a few draft designs. Many of the letters received from Terry Farrell/Terry Farrell Partnership have been annotated or have sketches on the reverse.

Topics covered include:
-programme of work
-builders and tradesmen
-fees and costs of work
-solar tempering
-planning consent
-program of work
-insurance
-reaction of neighbours to the designs and work
-cost/progress reports
-Venice Biennale
-request from Farrell for a name for the house
-credit for the designs
-problems arising due to working methods
-Charles' role as architect and client
-proposals for completion of works

Includes pages torn from Sunday Times Magazine 16 January 1983 with an article on Terry Farrell by Deyan Sudjic including discussion of the unfinished Jencks's house; photocopies of an Astragal piece in the AJ 19 May 1982 regarding the building work on 19 Lansdowne Walk and subsequent correspondence; incomplete manuscript notes (headed 3 and 4) regarding credit for the designs for the house.

Contents of a folder labelled '2nd; FourSquare Bedroom'.

Includes:
-colour polaroid photographs showing the completed room.
-photocopied plan sketches of the corner dressing table.
-b&w photographs of the finished room, annotated on reverse BD 26.10.84.
-manuscript notes and pencil sketches including alternative names for the room.
-drawings with measurements titled 'window seat May 2, 83' on University of California headed paper.
-pencil sketches of furniture.
-untitled whiteprint showing a plan of the room (folded).
-photocopied manuscript notes dated 9 July 1980 relating to various rooms.
-sketch plans and designs on tracing paper.
-untitled whiteprint plan (folded).
-manuscript notes and sketches on lined notepaper including alternate names for the house and a list of suggested themes.
-pencil sketches for a fireplace.
-typescript notes on lined paper titled 'The Foursquare Room: stencilling'.
-manuscript notes on lined paper titled '4-Ness'.

Contents of a folder labelled 'Ground Floor Cosmic Oval 4.41-4.43'

Includes:
-pencil and ink sketches on paper and tracing paper.
-photocopy of a drawing by Terry Farrell Partnership titled 'Detail of [Oval] Studwork Ground Floor Hall], Oct 1980 (folded).
-pencil and coloured pencil sketch of the ceiling.
-photocopy of an untitled drawing by Terry Farrell Partnership with a plan for the Cosmic Oval showing measurements and doors.