1845-04-21 Bigelow Chapel Stained Glass: Ballantine & Allan to Jacob Bigelow (page 2)

Should you entrust the work to our care, we
should guarantee that all the coloured glasses should be of the
very finest quality, and that the workmanship should be equal
to any other in Ancient or Modern Painted Glass. The pannels
could be forwarded together with plans & written instructions,
such as would enable any common Glazier to put them in --
Especial care would be taken that the Glass was packed
in a way to warrant its safety -- Vessels leave Greenock
every month for New York, the carriage would not form an
important item and we could have the entire work finished
within six or eight months from the time of its commencement.

Should you resolve upon employing us, it
would ensure correctness if you would forward pasteboard or
paper shapes, the exact daylight sizes of the various compart-
ments. These templets or shapes must be numbered, and your
lithograph drawings numbered to correspond -- The shapes of the
long perpendicular compartments would only be required above
the springs of the Arches with the exact length of the
compartments below the springs of Arches marked --

We have only to add that Mr Hay has been
consulted in the general arrangement and details of the
designs, that he has expressed his unqualified approbation
of both, and that should you honour us with an order
to execute the work, our chief aim would be to render the
Painted Glass Windows of your Chapel interesting and
attractive -- We have the honour to be

Sir

Your obedient Servants

Ballantine & Allan