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.

7 whiteprint designs for 19 Lansdowne Walk; 1 design on tracing paper; 1 A4 paper annotated 'Thematic House - Bill Reed'.

The whiteprints consist of:
-Terry Farrell Partnership, Final Design Drawing, First Floor Plan, 1 Oct 1980 [two copies]
-Terry Farrell Partnership, Final Design Drawing, Second Floor Plan, 1 Oct 1980 [two copies]
-Terry Farrell Partnership, Cabinets & Kitchen, Aug 1981 [two copies]
-Farrell- Grimshaw Partnership, Section Thro' Annex, April 198[0] [damaged]

The tracing paper design is unlabelled but relates to the Sundial Arcade.

Contents of a folder labelled 'Thematic House: Engineering Report'.

Includes:
-Unlabelled perspective drawings (folded)
-Annex Plans by Farrell/Grimshaw Partnership June 1979 with pen annotations (folded)
-felt tip pen on tracing paper labelled 'Rear Elevation; Jencks' House Nov '78 (folded)
-comb-bound printed report by ACRAED titled 'A Feasibility Study of Passive Solar Heating for the Jenks House 19 Lansdown Walk, London March 1979' [sic] including 8 options for insulation and glazing of the house and conservatory with a comparison of predicted heating loads and costs.
-Notes in ink on tracing paper titled 'Design Solutions + Performance Analysis?' mainly regarding insulation, heating and solar energy collection (folded)
-calculation sheets from David French & Partners labelled 'preliminary' detailing loading calculations, with ink sketches on reverse

9 pen drawings on tracing paper labelled as follows:
1 - Side Elevation : Structure
Side Elevation : Ideas - 1
Side Elevation : Ideas - 2
1 - Rear Elevation : Structure
2 - Rear Elevation : Structure
Rear Elevation : Ideas - 1
Rear Elevation : Ideas - 2
Rear Elevation : Ideas - 3
Rear Elevation : Ideas - 4

The drawings labelled 'structure' each have a key showing 'Existing openings - to be left', 'Existing openings - to be filled in' and 'New Openings proposed'. The drawings labelled 'ideas' are alternative proposals for the West and Rear elevations.

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