WCP192

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Broadstone, Wimborne

March 22^nd/[19]08

My dear Will

I know you would have the "book" sheets, as printed, for there never were any others. I told you in my letter proposing your doing it, that one copy must have half the pages (the odd numbers) scored out or pasted over, the other set the "even" numbers — then they will [be] the same as printed on one side, & can be cut up to make ^{the new} pages with interposed Mss. &c.

[2] We have begun the wall got in the foundation, & got the three first pier — frames set up. The wall leaves about 5 or 6 feet to walk on between it & the fence, with a return[?] 10 feet at top & 8 feet at bottom. The regular piers are 10 feet apart, thus: showing the [A sketch of the wall appears here] 4 posts, 10 ft. high, & the boards to make the building boxes for the wall. I think I have arranged all so that it will work well [3] [A large sketch showing the kitchen, garden, top fence, boundary fence, wall and road appears on page 3] [4] the boards being put on up to 3 feet; then shifted up to do 3 feet more. The carpenter I have got thinks it will work all right. The 4 posts are tied and braced together and strutted firmly, and so arranged that the boards can be shifted while the posts remain till the whole is finished. I have a bricklayer who has worked at concrete a good deal, & knows all about making it good quality. The wood will all come in useful afterwards.¹

By the end of the week we shall see how it works. I doubt if any builder round here has ever put up such a wall, or would undertake it[.] I will tell how it goes on next week.

Your affectionate Pa | A.R. Wallace [signature]