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It may interest you to know that the owner of this house is John Mack Brown – a very dear friend of mine. He is our most successful and attractive of the moving picture stars, as you probably know. 

The house is to be at Ledgemont Park – part of Beverly Hills – on the edge of Los Angeles, and is built on sort of table land, 150 feet above the surrounding country, with a wonderful view from the terrace, of Los Angeles, and the country down to the sea. 

Mr. and Mrs. Brown were entranced with your drawings, and would not let either the architect or me change anything. All of uf [sic] were amused, but also respectful of your clever turn in making the perfectly commonplace elevations I sent you into a thing of beauty. 

I shall be here until about the fourth of July. It might be well to send the drawing of the terrace façade to me here as soon as it is done, but all correspondence about technicalities and dimensions can be carried on with Mr. Kelly’s office. You will probably have heard from him by this time. If not so, you very soon will. 

On the terrace side of the library tower, I want triple Gothic windows, as in my library at Gloucester; also on the terrace front of the owner’s bedroom, in the center, we have decided to put a square bay window 2’ 6” deep inside, and 8’ 6” wide inside [sic]. There will be casement windows on the front of this, but none on the sides of it. 

In the sitting room (between the library and owner’s bedroom), the window will be something like this: [below is a pencil sketch showing a series of five casement windows between two doors, all/numbered; with handwritten marginal notes by Sleeper] 

sashes 2, 3, + 4  just clear glass outer sashes like other windows

sashes 1 & 5  are to be ground glass outside + inner sashes inside to make sort of window cabinets to show a collection of rose glass