Urrard, Pitlochrie, Perthshire My dear Jones Thanks for your kind note. I am so sorry to have missed you as you before leaving town. As regards old pictures I should indeed to you in case of coming across anything important. I have leant well as of ignorance among those who deal in them in any shape. small price last year but have gradually come to the conclusion that rate or so injured as to be no bargains and now I don't care to buy I have asked Foord and Dickinson to send you out a Tintoretto1 pretty sure will please you and a pendant to which I thought it might day when an idea suitable to the purpose arises in that fertile imagination I hope you did not grudge my asking for the Chant d'Amour very much for our rooms here which are small and to which I bring much for. You shall have both back whenever you want them. Autumn. Love the Philosopher [b23] has come down and is charming. to bring your wife and bairns here in September. I know you would once made the effort - it would be a new world to you in natural enjoyable and if you get into the train at 8 at Euston you can have by 1 1 next morning without changing carriages and be set down would be such a pleasure to us and I know to your wife and bairns to her. I can of course guess what you allude to in saying there was something special you wished to speak to me about. I had written our friend2 pressing him to do what was his duty in respect of a debt he owed me and had in reply a remittance of part of the money and a promise of the rest but at same time a somewhat indignant complaint of being so pressed. Afterwards I saw him and from what he told me I cannot but think he means to do right and has property to meet all he owes but not easily realised and I should fear he will gradually get more and more involved. I think in your position who ought not for your wife and children's sake to run risk of loss he ought to and would give you if pressed security in the way of property deposited for what he owes you. It is a delicate matter to meddle in and I am really sorry for him but my fear is that not to press him does no real eventual good. I fear you are not the only person to whom he owes money that ought not to be in arrears. With kind regards Yours very sincerely W. Graham 17 August He told me he had lent his Filippo Lippi and [one] other picture3 to a friend in his absence. I should not wonder if he had borrowed money or deposited them as securities - but this between ourselves. 1 This picture had been bought by WG at the Earl of Dunmore sale, Christie's, 13 May 1870. For EBJ copies after Tintoretto, see Bume-Jones (Arts Council, 1975), nos. 336-38, and Wildman and Christian, 1998, p. 83, fig. 65. 2 Unidentified. 3 Unidentified.