44 Grosvenor Place, S.W. 3 March My dear Jones The choristers [b 6] and the little figure with organ [b2g]x were brought home last night by Foord and Dickinson and I write to say how much we like them. They are each charming in its way and the only disadvantage of them is that like almost everything I see of yours they make me, like the hungry boy at Dotheboys Hall [sic] in Oliver Twist, unable to resist 'asking for more'! The choristers are admirable for the organ, frame and all, but there is space left on each side which needs two litde pictures to complete the frontage and if among your manifold 'ideas' you could pick up any that would do to fill in that space I would be very pleased to have them. The space is 14^ inches wide on each side and of course the height same as the choristers 24 inches these measurements being the full space and of course including frames. Will you try and find something for me that would do. I am sure among your designs for windows or something of that kind you must have Angels' or 'Female Saints' or something of the kind - Then you know it would be cruel to let that sweet little woman with the organ live alone in the world - Have you not 'Love' or other suitable companion^] you could give her! You see I am importunate and incorrigible or rather insatiable. I must get Morris to send someone to look at our organ2 and get the gaudy Alhambraism out of it so as to suit the [tone] of the choristers. I must come out some day when you are not busy and see what is going on more comfortably than I could with Hamilton3 last week. I want to send back the 'Dragonfly' I think you called it - the solitary green girl4 which I took away unfinished on sufferance - to have her finished. The organ girl is charming in colour. I never see such colour anywhere else except in old Venetians and they still beat you. I doubt if the Pygmalion set5 will ever have the charm of the more richly coloured works. Laus Veneris [b2i] and Rene's Honeymoon [bi7] have both something in them that is enjoyment to me. Ever with kind regards Yours Sincerely W. Graham Did you ever begin a pendant for the little Tintoretto [d3 12]? 1 See EBJ notebook, p. 15: '1871: a watercolour of a girl with an organ, in a red dress, & a blue background.' 2 Whereabouts unknown. 3 See A4, n. 2. 4 Unidentified. 5 Small series (sold Sotheby s, 8-9 June 1993 (lot 24)), painted in 1868-70, but retouched in 1883, according to EBJ notebook. Illus. in Wildman and Christian, 1998, p. 217.