Contents of a folder labelled 'Themes'.

Includes:
-colour polaroid of the Cosmic Oval
-correspondence between Charles and Barbara Hoyle regarding Sir Fred Hoyle's contributions to the house
-program for the Entrance Ellipse
-correspondence between Charles and D McNally at the University of London Observatory, regarding an introduction to Fred Hoyle and new research in astronomy
-manuscript and photocopied lettering designs
-cuttings from Country Life 14 July 1983 regarding Villa Kerylos, French Riviera
-typescript with manuscript alterations title 'The Thematic House'
-astrological designs on tracing paper
-photocopied typeface designs and details of a course on letter design for architects
-colour, b&w photographs and floor plans of the [National Gallery of Art, Washington]
-I.M. Pei & Partners program and statistics and press release for the National Gallery of Art [Washington] Expansion
-manuscript notes on the National Gallery of Art, the Willow Tea Rooms, temples, Edzell castle
-design for the sink in the Cosmic Loo
-notes on the word 'cosmos' and for a frieze
-contact sheet and negatives of built-in furniture within the house
-manuscript notes listing rooms in the house and columns labelled 'drawings, sketches notes etc: what we have', 'Photographs: what we have' and 'What we need' dated 14 Dec 1984. There are coloured dots to indicate Maggie and Charles' preferences.
-cutting from the Guardian 'The House that Jencks built' 1984 and photocopies
-typescript notes titles 'Cultural History July 25th 1984 MK CK WS' relating to the frieze
-news cuttings on astronomy
-typescript notes titled 'Cultural Time' with manuscript annotations listing historical figures
-typescript notes titled 'Seventeen Themes of the Thematic House The Matic How See' divided into general, historical & architectural and personal
-printed typescript document titled 'Program for the Entrance Ellipse - The Cosmic Egg and Cultural History by Charles Jencks' with manuscript annotations and sketches on reverse.
-manuscript and typescript draft lists of themes
-typescript document titled 'William Stok December 2 1984: Thoughts on the Mural' with a manuscript sketch at the bottom of the page
-typescript documentitled 'Allegory MK: Architecture defeated; architecture triumphant'.
-manuscript quotations
-photocopy from an unknown publication relating to the personification of architecture
-pencil sketches on tracing paper of doors, with photocopies
-incomplete typescript document titled 'The Thematic House: Charles Jencks'
-photocopy from an unknown publication relating to the symbolism of the seasons
-typescript and manuscript notes titled 'Future Pavilion' with aphorisms about the future
-photocopy typescript article titled 'The Thematic House (A brief Summary); Charles Jencks'.
-typescript letter from Mark Girouard sending captions [not included] and returning the slides and transparencies
-typescript notes on Autumn, Aphrodite, Artemis and Spring
-horoscopes from Vogue June 1972
-typescript notes titled 'Thoughts on Reading E.H. Gombrich 'The Museum: Past, Present and Future' in Ideals and Idols, Phaidon, Oxford 1979'
-pencil and ink sketch frieze designs
-colour polaroid photograph of the Bathpool
-receipt from Harriet Wynter Ltd for an Orrery and colour reproduction labelled 'This is the ceiling of the famous planetarium built by Eise Eisinga'
-letter from D McNally at the University of London regarding the entrance ellipse and returning Charles' program (attached) and regarding introductions to Sir Fred Hoyle
-pencil lettering designs
-typescript notes titled 'Museum of Cultural History'
-private view card for 'Ornament and Decoration: Architectural Drawings by Arthur Brown Jr and Bakewell & Brown' at Phillippe Bonnafont Gallery, San Francisco, with manuscript annotations
-colour polaroid photographs of the Cosmic Oval

Ink drawings, watercolours and typescript commentary by Ian Hamilton Finlay of proposals for the garden. The designs include: Sundial, Benches, Herms, Obelisk and Roman Fragments.

The designs are presented in a series of folded cards, numbered 1; 2; 2a; 3; 4; 4a; 5; 4a ,5a; 5a; 6; 6a; 7; 8; 9; 10; 10a. Some of the designs and typescript documents have come loose from the cards.

Contents of a folder labelled 'Thematic House: Ground Floor; Winter Spring rejects; Sundial rejects'

Includes:
-b&w photographs of clay head, one labelled 'Early Spring'
-colour slides of the Samuel Eliot Morison sculpture by Penelope Jencks
-pencil designs for furniture
-pencil designs on tracing paper for seating in Spring
-photocopy elevations of the Spring fireplace
-typescript list of marble colours for the Spring and Winter fireplaces on Michael Graves headed paper
-photocopy design for astrological symbols
-photocopy titled 'Jencks Fireplace: wall stencil' with colour key, and used stencils
-photocopy of Botticelli's Primavera from an unknown publication
-typescript 'Sculptural Program for Spring Fireplace'
-whiteprint by Michael Graves Architect titled 'Spring Fireplace: Terrace House', 1983, folded
-manuscript letter from [Penelope Jencks] to Charles regarding sculpture costs on the back of a photocopy letter relating to the Morison Monument
-typescript notes on Winter and Hephaestus
-photocopy from an unknown publication relating to Hephaestus
-pencil plans for terrace seating in the Architectural Library
-pencil sketch plan on tracing paper
-b&w polaroid photographs of Spring annotated in pen with numbers and attached to a piece of paper. Pencil annotations on the paper regarding the use of the photographs
-whiteprint by Michael Graves Architect titled 'Terrace House Fireplace, Mar 1982', folded. Two copies, one has the bottom corner cut out but still with the whiteprint, the other has some pencil annotations
-whiteprint by Terry Farrell Partnership titled 'Terrace House: Survey - Winter Chimneybreast', Nov 1981, folded. Two copies, one has a fireplace drawn on in pencil.
-pencil and pen designs for seating in the Sundial Arcade
-pencil manuscript notes titled 'Hephaestus Program'
-copy letters from Charles to Michael Graves regarding commissions for the fireplaces and possible sculptors for Spring
-colour photograph of an unidentified sculpture
-pencil sketch on tracing paper of the ceiling in Winter
-heavily annotated Ground Floor plan with alternative room arrangements and notes of problems
-sundial diagram by Mark Lennox-Boyd with covering note