CORRESPONDENCE.
A HUNDRED-GUINEA COTTAGE. (To rue Soma or TIM enclose plans, specifications, and explanatory memo- randum of the hundred-guinea cottage built by me at Morrow Common, in answer to Hr. Strachey's challenge. Less than six months ago I gave it as my opinion, at a housing meeting, that one could not hope to build anything of a cottage for much under £200, and that though I considered myself to have given special attention to cheap cottage building. The audacity and attractive impossibility of Mr. Strachey's £110 proposition staggered me, however, into (as I thought) a reckless accept- ance of his challenge, and no one is more surprised at the result than myself. He had the courage to demand the obviously impossible—and, behold a supply of the same.—
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