Hotel Cavour Milan My dear Jones It was so good of you to write me two letters both of yesterday and I feel so awfully remiss and lazy for not regular mess with my correspondence. I got 70 letters quarters to meet us!! And I only answered one that told letters are all and only pleasure to me. I often and often pleasure it would be to you and to all of us. It is quite a Switzerland chilled and oppressed me but here it is unmitigated [every] place full of interest. I never knew what Luini own line Boticelli) in charm and of course greater by far in this part of the world that would detain one from Florence speak of. I must see the Luca Signorellis1 before I die. How to us and to tell us about them. Amy and Kenneth and in London and they will tell you all about us. Frances thoroughly and Aggie has had holidays to her heart's content that could be and I keep wishing I could knock off twenty been away today spending the forenoon with an old Italian 1 8 miles from Milan I do think one of the loveliest sites with antiquities Greek Roman and cincocento [sic] drawings, old books etc. etc. - and such nice people so simple and gentle and noble in all their ways and yet Italian families must have been and it is quite true we are a nation of shopkeepers. In one old Italian family house I bought an early picture of yours!3 - they did not know who it was by! but what it was about and neither do I but you will tell me when we come home. I now for I am rather wearying for rest and I hope another six weeks will satisfy Luini - no - not next to Luini but above and beyond him I find delight in your you as well and I can't have Luini and shouldn't care if I could. It is so good of you to do the brass4 and will be such a pleasure to us all to have it at be just right and the organ will have double the joy in it with your picture so please to put all needful brackets etc. for it. Tell Margaret others than herself wept for the for her (but not for it for it would have grown into a cat which is hateful). I am half afraid from all you say that you have not been gaining strength as summer and now the depressing time is coming on but I cannot think this climate, for you. It is debilitating I don't know why - but I am always tired - wearied and to write is such an effort I cannot describe and so I only write one letter or two be so glad to find myself at north end again. Love to all yours and to you Ever Yours affy W. Graham I enclose a cheque for £ioo for the organ panel [bi2]5 - with 10 hundred thousand thanks and Glasgow are to send you £250 to account of any work you like - and please don't let yourself be poor and take all the money from me always , you promised me to do so didn't you ? Tell me what old books to buy and what not to buy. I want nice ones that you will like to play with. 1 The fresco cycle in Orvieto Cathedral. 2 Probably the Villa Litta Melzi, Vaprio d'Adda. 3 Unidentified. 4 Memorial plaque to Willy Graham for the college chapel at Eton, where he had been a pupil. Cf. A60, n. 1 . 5 Burne-Jones notebook, p. 23: '1876, painted a set of gold figures on oak for Graham's organ.'