22 Aug/93 dear LM. I was at Rottingdean / - I had to come back on / a dismal enough errand. / My picture of Love in the / Ruins has been utterly / destroyed - it was sent / to Goupil's place & there / they varnished it with / white of egg - & the / whole thing has gone / as if it had never been / done - so I am / wretched about it & bothered / too with the sequence / of business & talk & / general mess it invokes / I shall be back here / at the Grange I hope / on Sunday - if you / could look in some / time on Sunday I / should be glad - / I am off now on / a journey to the North / but as you see only for / 3 or 4 days at most. / There's a nice bit / of news. / but I wish all / artists could know / what lies in wait. / for their pictures when / they go to be / "reproduced" / youraff EBJ