MAY 7
If you do build, take care to have windows enough and two broad doors; and do not build a scarecrow of a house.
to John Bredin, 1789
A preaching-house can’t be too light or too airy? Therefore your windows must be large. And let them be sashes, opening downward; otherwise the air coming in would give people cold . . . and see that whatever is done be done neat and strong.
to Edward Bolton, 1769
You must not undertake any building till two-thirds of the money it will cost are subscribed.
to Robert Costerdine, 1769
I hope you will always be diligent in business as one branch of the business of Life.
Letter, 3rd August, 1778
