LETTER XXIV.
Reading edition
From Fred.
IN A MULTITUDE OF COUNSELLORS IS SAFETY.
MY DEAR ARCHITECT: Your criticisms are not wholly without reason. I can only plead haste and inexperience.
Have been studying arrangement of rear part, and seem to get farther and farther from a satisfactory result. The kitchen and dining-room must be convenient to each other, but not adjacent; the pantries and larder easy to get at; back stairs accessible from all parts of the house, and side entrance worked in somehow; washbowl and water-closet not far off, but out of
Do you really expect us to dispense with sliding-doors between the parlors? I'm sure that won't pass. We would almost as soon give up the bay-windows,—everybody has them nowadays.
Truly,
Fred.