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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 159 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm ISBN 9780316184328, 0316184322 OCLC 14948890"LCCN 86081781 Classification - LC NA8360 .E5 1986 Classification - Dewey 728.9 ; egg-white colored cloth in photographic color dustjacket ; This illustrated collection of essays by a variety of influential English landowners writing about their own garden rooms is filled with specific examples and instructions that the reader can apply to his or her own house" ; Articles: The Victorian Conservatory And Grotto At Bodnant / Lady Aberconway -- An Indoor Garden Room In The Cotswolds / Stanley Falconer -- A Breakfast And Plant Room In Essex / Hugh Johnson -- The Victorian Covered Garden At Sandon Park / The Earl Of Harrowby -- A Crystal Room In North Wales / The Hon. Christopher Mclaren -- A Workroom And Glasshouse In Yorkshire / James Russell -- A Glasshouse In The Sky / Andrew Logan -- An Outdoor Room In Berkshire / Mary Keen -- The Tuscan Temple In A Gloucestershire Garden / Rosemary Verey -- The New Room In Chelsea / David Mlinaric -- A Seventeenth-Century Gazebo In Wiltshire / Lady Mary Russell -- A Glass Music Room In Highgate / Nicola Bayley -- A Crescent Cold House In Somerset / Princess Nicholas Von Preussen -- A Sun Room In Monmouthshire / Lord Raglan -- A Miniscule Conservatory In Knightsbridge / Lady Henderson -- A Sub-Tropical Garden Room In Wiltshire / John Merton -- A Painted Waggon In The New Forest / Mary Montagu -- A Fine Winter Garden In Wiltshire / Robert Kime -- A Restored Conservatory In North Wales / Lady Newborough -- An Artist'S Studio And Potting Shed In Stockwell / Mrs Charmian Stirling -- Soaring, Nineteenth-Century Splendour In Nottinghamshire / Myles Thoroton Hildyard -- A Weekend Conservatory In Wiltshire / Pamela Bullmore -- A Circular Conservatory In Buckinghamshire / Viscountess Hambleden -- A Glassroom For All Seasons In Clapham / Susan Gernae -- The Conservatory And Orangerie At Port Eliot In Cornwall / Lord Eliot ; FINE/FINE. Book.…

Twelve typed letters, including eight letters, on letterheads from various universities, signed by Merton L. Dillon, between March 1, 1961 and February 26, 1968, written to Mrs. James Durgin of New York City; one letter to Mrs. Durgin from Edward T. James, signed and dated March 6, 1961; and three retained copies of Mrs. Durgin's letters to Dillon, one undated, the other two dated April 18, 1961 and Dec. 12, 1962. 8vo and 12mo; 14 pages (one page lacking lower portion, torn away, but no loss of text), approx. 2600 words. All the letters are in very good condition, a few a bit rumpled. Merton Dillon was charged with writing the short biography of Jane McManus Cazneau, for inclusion in the three volume publication NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN, 1607-1950. His first letter to Mrs. Durgin expresses excitement to learn that she is interested in Cazneau as well, and requests some help from her on general biographical points. His second letter to her, dated March 13, 1961, defends himself as having been selected to write the sketch since she appears to feel it should have been her. He tries to explain that his sketch will not interfere with her projected full-scale biography of Cazneau. His next letter is more relaxed, as he has apparently had a letter from Mrs. Durgin offering answers to some of his questions after all. The two correspondents go on to debate some points of information, including the first name of Cazneau's first husband [Allen or William Storm (?), a matter not resolved by the time Dillon's article was published]. The letter from Edward T. James to Mrs. Durgin explains how the publication, NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN, for which he was the editor, came to choose Dillon to write the essay. Though Dillon continues to encourage Mrs. Durgin to finish her biography, and though she herself says she is making progress and has three chapters completed, we can find no record of such a book. Jane McManus Cazneau was a journalist, publicist, and expansionist who accompanied her father and brother to Matagorda, Texas in 1833, with a company of German settlers. Her father had helped found the Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company. Her brother stayed on in Texas, but father and daughter returned to New York City. She continued to support the annexation of Texas, and lobbied in Washington for the annexation of Mexico. With her second husband William Cazneau she pushed for the U.S. government to consider annexations in the Caribbean, including Cuba and Santo Domingo. Both were supporters of Williams Walker's efforts in Nicaragua. Cazneau wrote several books under the pen name "Cora Montgomery," to forward her political agendas. [see Dillon's short biography in volume 1, pp. 315-7, in NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN.].…