44 Grosvenor Place, S.W. My dear Jones So many thanks for the Danae [b8] which is charming.1 I quite understand about the varnish and how it will glorify the colour when the proper time comes. I am so pleased that you are taking up the 'Love passing'2 again and it is quite true as you say that the subject must gain by your five years study and progress. I never found any fault in it at the time but I presume that was my ignorance. I know it will be very beautiful. We are all half disposed to keep the Danae and give my brother3 something else 'the ring given to Venus'4 the like. So do like a true friend invent and devise and accomplish one or two little tiny pictures for a bijou bachelor's house where everything is in perfect taste and whose pictures and drawings few in number Wints etc.) are as good as anyones can be until they have learned what Carpaccio, Boticelli, the Venetians and you have to say to them about colour and sentiment. I hear that Mrs Jones was so kind as to leave the Danae here herself - please thank her for me and say how sorry the girls and all of us are we had not arrested her en passant. They are busy at work with their curtain5 and greatly charmed with the design. I have been away in the North again and only returned last night. Ever Yours Sincerely W. Graham [Saturday] 1 WG decided to keep the picture: Burne-Jones notebook, p. 17: *1872, a small oil picture on panel of Danae looking at the Brazen Tower - for Graham.' 2 See B2, n. 2. 3 Either Robert or John Graham, who lived at Albert Gate, Knightsbridge: see Horner, 1933, p. 27. 4 Bell, 1895, p. 49: begun in 1873. 5 Unidentified embroidery designed by EBJ. Frances Graham embroidered EBJ' s design for Love, which was exhibited at the fifth Arts and Crafts Exhibition in 1 896, and is now in St Andrew's church, Mells. See Wildman and Christian, 1998, no. 130.,