Dear Mr Burne-Jones It would indeed be very selfish of me not to facilitate your wish to paint the Chant d'Amour in oils and the picture [b3] is quite at your service for that purpose. I should like however not to send it you until we are leaving town as it occupies a very prominent space on my drawing room walls and its absence would disfurnish the room to my eyes most unpleasantly and I have nothing I would like to see in its place. I think by the middle of July we shall be leaving town and you could then have it till November or longer if necessary. Will that do? - if not I must try and spare it sooner. Thanks for your offer to let me have the refusal of the enlarged copy [b4] which I accept gladly. I have been intending to trespass on your kindness by another visit to the studio for several weeks past but have not had almost an hour I could call my own since I saw you. I hope I may find Cupid and Psyche [b7?] has not been altogether laid aside since then. I want to know too whether there be any chance of getting that 'green summer'1 of Mr Tonge's2 in some replica oil or water [bi 5] done for me some day of course with his consent. Do you ever come North in your summer holiday - if you have not seen Scotland I should like very much to shew you some of the prettiest parts of it if you would consent. Yours very sincerely W. Graham 30 May 1 Green Summer , 1864 (Sotheby's, 22 Nov. 1983 (lot 78)); see The Pre-Raphaelites (Tate Gallery, 1984), no. 236. 2 Jonathan Tonge (d. 1881). His wife Eleanor was also a collector and later married the collector William Coltart. See Macleod, 1996, pp. 401-02.