sentences:  Mention is made of the Hospital and similar foundations in an undated letter written by Daniel Defoe, entitled "A Scheme for a Royal Palace in the Place of White-Hall".In 1883, the school sought larger, newer buildings for the children; and the boy boarders, as they all then were, moved to the present buildings on the edge of Wandsworth Common.These had been established originally in the late 1850s as Royal Victoria Patriotic School for Boys, funded by the Royal Patriotic Fund, for children orphaned during the Crimean War; the building was designed by Henry Saxon Snell.