| Description | 'With reference to my letter of yesterday about the fire-places, I have been looking into the matter myself and fear more will be found to do than can be attacked immediately. I should therefore be very glad if some responsible person could go into the matter with me to-morrow morning when the fires are out (say shortly after 11 o'clock), so as to let me have a comprehensive report on what is needed. If the repairs to the kitchen range are attempted to-morrow they ought to be completed before 4 o'clock, and if this cannot be done we had better postpone the whole business to be dealt with together at some more convenient time.
Most of the fire-places in this building are really very old-fashioned, as well as old, and if it could be done without great expense, I believe some of them ought to be replaced by new ones entirely.' |