July 1914: LW writes, from Neuwaldeggerstrasse, Vienna, to his friend William Eccles, in Manchester. (This is the second of his surviving letters to Eccles). He tells Eccles that he is again in Vienna for a holiday, and thanks him for a recent letter, the furniture designs contained in which he deems “splendid as far as I can judge”. He makes critical remarks upon the planned wardrobe, but approves of the medicine chest, and the dressing table. LW advises Eccles that if he buys a bed from a furniture manufacturer, he should “insist that they cut off all those measly fancy ends”, as well as its rollers. LW notes that he is going on a journey in mid-August, and will come to see Eccles around September 10th (in fact, this visit never took place). He asks Eccles to remember him to his wife and Aunt, and remarks that he will have lots of thing to talk about when he next sees Eccles (Eccles, pp.58-9).
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