Glasgow. Thursday 3d. My dear Jones I was so sorry to pass thro town without seeing either you or yours. It was stupid of me not writing before to tell you but I rather expected not to have been so hurried as I afterwards unavoidably was. I hope to spend two or three days in town on my way back between the 12th and 20th and to come to you then for a night at all events. Kenneth and Amy1 are to be at Grovr. Place on the 12th Saturday till Monday on their way out to Switzerland but I am doubtful if I shall get up so soon. It is dreary work down here after the bright skies at Interlaken, a perfect deluge of rain and quite depressing. I left all well in Switzerland, Mrs Graham certainly better for the change and both Frances and Aggie wonderfully flourishing. I am really pleased and thankful for the good it has done them - especially Frances who needed it most and shews the benefit most markedly. They are keen for climbing up mountains are doing uncanny things which I have however prohibited at all events until my own return. They are now at Murren a lovely mountain place two or three hours from Interlaken, the most flowery I think of any place I ever saw - more flowers than grass almost and close to the snow mountains. We have seen much that you would have found beautiful, notwithstanding the awfulness of the great mountains and the lack of Italian heavenliness of atmosphere and landscape but I leave talk till we meet and [then] I must. I am sure the splendid setting will become the Angels [bg] well and even its dimensions can I think successfully dealt with at G. Place. Frances has finished the 'Music'2 and told me to tell you she thought would really like it - It is very beautiful - I saw it nearly but not quite done before I left. It is so good doing the Merlin3 for me when I know it is an effort and in some sense to your feeling a waste to work - but it is so wonderful that I could not help coveting it and the Annunciation4 I do look forward with a special interest feeling you take it up to please us as well as for your own joy in making it. We shall be home to Grosvr. Place I hope before Xtmas altho F and Aggie make all sorts of plans for Italy but I know they cannot resist coming if the Angels are at G. Place and the others growing into shape just for the of seeing them. Our poor little darling invalid Florence has been with us at Interlaken and is better but I fear must continue to be a heavy care to us and our plans and movements must greatly be influenced welfare. Love to you all Ever yours affy W. Graham 1 WG's daughter and her husband, Kenneth Muir Mackenzie. 2 Presumably embroidery made to EBJ's design: whereabouts unknown. 3 This commission for a replica of The Beguiling of Merlin , 1872-77 (Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight), was not completed. 4 The Annundation, 1876-79 (Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight) went to George Howard: see Wildman and Christian, 1998, no. 104.