1845-07-02 Bigelow Chapel Stained Glass: Ballantine & Allan to Jacob Bigelow (page 1)

42 George Street Edinburgh
2^nd July 1845

Jacob Bigelow Esq^re

Sir,

We beg leave to acknowledge receipt of your com-
munication of the 14^th ult^a, and feel exceedingly gratified by
the perusal of its contents.--

We shall begin to Work immediately on the
receipt of the shapes or templets, and shall take care to have it
finished and dispatched to your Agents in Liverpool, on or before
the first day of March next.

Thorwaldsen's Night and Raphaels Madonna are
both known to us, and there is an excellent copy of the latter in
the possession of a Gentleman here, to which we have access.
The excellent taste shown in the selection of such subjects, as
well as in their adaptation to the purpose intended, is fully
appreciated by us. We feel the importance of the Work
committed to us, and you may rely upon our best exertions
being used to treat the subjects Artistically.

We have noted carefully, and understand
clearly, all the alterations in the shapes alluded to in your
letter, and if upon the arrival of these, there be any point
which we do not clearly understand we shall write you.
The other instructions contained in your communications
shall be rigidly adhered to. We trust that you have
returned our design in the paper parcel, if not please
do immediately, else we shall not know well how to
proceed with the foliated ornament not having kept

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