The Grange Northend 14 Jul 75 dear Little Murray. Your letter has just / come. I will answer while / it is hot - for if I leave it / even an hour god knows when / I shall write - for I get worse / & worse about writing. - I / wanted to write about your / marriage & wish you a thousand / good things - but I didn't - I / wished them all the same & / hoped you knew that - Ld. Howard / brought a description of your / wife which made me long to / see her - & I thought you would / be very happy - give her my love: / - sometime next year I hope I / shall see you both - Colvin wants / your address. I gave it him & / suppose he will have written / by now. / I am very busy - rather / overworked to say the truth / Often very dull & increasingly / sad about things but I don't mean it to grow if I can help / I have done a good bit of work / lately - meaning a lot - as for / the quality I don't know much / about it - if for one hour it / seems good for twelve it seems / bad and I wish I had the / heart to learn it a bit and / go to Italy - Phil & Margaret / are at Kelmscott - Mr. Morris / is in great vigour these months. / he is ? the face of the / earth with new dyes and / new patterns, & finishing his / translation of Virgil. & planning / new empires to conquer, & / altogether is in glorious? / - three times a week at least / we meet & that is the best / part of my life as you may / imagine. every Sunday morning / he reads Scott to me while I / draw for the Virgil. I scarsely / see anyone else now - W. Poynter / has just been made head of / the South Kensington ? - so / that the future art of this / great country now depends on him - / - as to photographs, my dear, - I / should like some of those ancient / book ? - but I do wish / the Siena floor could be taken - / I have a set done from copies / but I doubt what that means. / - there are some strange Florentine / low reliefs at the church of Perugia / I should like - rather in my / style - / As for Mr. Rossetti - I never / see him - & think he has lost all / ease of some of his old friends - / I have tried time after time to / keep things from slipping away / but now I feel cross, & / think if he made advances / how I should retreat - one / day I woke up angry about it / and angry I remain - he / hasn't cared to see a thing I / have done for seven years / now - & that isn't friendship / is it? / We are having a very evil Summer / - cold, windy & wet and altogether / disheartening so that it seems / like one long winter since last / November - I wish you could / come over to London for the / ? summer months ? given / to work - you used to get lots / of work to do - I could make / all this right - for if ever you / had a ? to work for me / there are could months of things / to do. - much love to you - keep / well & write as often as you can / - I like having letters so / much that I ought to think / others do too./ everyouraffect / E Burne-Jones