International records / UK National Archives

Letter from Henry J. Mylius, Villa Oliveta, Menaggio, Lago di Como to John H. Oglander

OG/CC/2022D | The Oglander Collection.PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS. | "Your letter and the drawings are to hand and Vitali has begun fitting the frame work of the gates. I have carefully explained your remarks and wishes to him and he will do his best to carry them out. I certainly think the design you selected is the best of the four submitted. We now await your decision as to the lower panel. My opinion is that one arabesque panel will be more in keeping with the rest of the gate and I think it should be of a heavier and simpler design than the upper panels. Structural reasons demand so…