Letter from John N. Brown commenting on floor plan design and ideas on changes to design for house. Handwriting in margins, grayscale scan of original document.
Folder 20 of the Construction reference files continues the elaborate specification dummy for the Mill Creek project, which Richard J. Neutra completed in 1949 for the Road Department of the County of Los Angeles. This set contains specifications of scope, materials, and installation for terrazzo, cement finishes, and masonry--incinerator.
Memorandum from John N. Brown answering questionnaire (do not have questionnaire). Brown describes the weather and land of property site where he plans on building the house, the Brown family and servants, and wants and desires for what they wish and require from their new house.
Paper; 74 folios, plus unnumbered folios with text in front; 27x21 cm. (written surface area: 23x17 cm.). Text in modern šełagir, written in one column of 26 lines. Notebook composed of sheets of "David Bros. & Co." loose-leaf paper bound together.Contents: The codex is a "Collection of Poems," composed mostly by G. M. George in Armenian, Persian, and English. Many of these poems deal with the theme of love and are addressed to his wife, Aruseak; some are vulgar and even obscene. Additionally, there are lyrics composed by Persian-Armenian minstrels, Łul Yovhannēs and Amir Ōłli, whose poems are reproduced in this codex from other, unnamed sources.
Most of the text written in bolorgir, the remainder (fols. 6-9, 20, 27-29v, 35v-36, 38-39) in notragir, text written in one column of 20-23 lines. Subtitles in red bolorgir, or notragir, and initials mostly in red erkat’agir.
Script: bolorgir. Scribe and place of copy: unknown. Illustrations: headpieces, marginal ornaments and decorative initials. Binding: stamped leather over boards. Inscription on front cover, in English translation reads: "This book is in memory of the monk Parsam, son of the priest Paul."
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