| Description | There is an original wrapper on which is written: 'Rickman & Co. Drawings for Hands[w]orth Cemetery received back from Mr Higgins. August 1829.'
There is a letter from James W. Higgins to Mr Mylne dated 04 August 1829, apologising for the delay in returning the drawings.
Some of the drawings are numbered and some have a 4 figure number as well. The portfolio contains the following:
1 (3943); 2 (3953); 4 (3982); 5 (3984); 6 ( ); 8 (3986); 10 (3988); 12 (3997); 15 (4009); 17 (4410); 22 (——); 24 (——); 25 (——); 26 (——).
There are also 6 unnumbered drawings and 6 incomplete portions of drawings. Some of the drawings are signed: 'To James Watt. Rickman & Hutchinson', and dated variously 7 or 8 mo. 1825; 2 or 3 mo. 1826. |