Grosvenor Place Thursday Dear Lady Please receive herewith cheque for £400 balance of my debt for the Cophetua Cartoon [bi6]. I send it with some hesitation and doubt whether I have not undervalued what seems to me so beautiful. I can only add loving thanks for his kindness in letting me have it at all. Colvin1 called here yesterday and tells me his American friend's wish was for a 'pencil drawing'2 not a coloured one and so you will have the reward of your self-denying kindness which consented to part with a valued possession by its return, but I don't remember Ned ever having pencil drawings that he could sell except the one he let me have years and years ago of the lady in the garden [b26?] - but if there be any I would like to please a lady who has taste and feeling for such work. I ought to keep copies of anything I write about his affairs and will do so when book. Meantime will you post the enclosed if you approve of it. Yours affy W.G. 1 Sidney Colvin (1845-1927), scholar, art critic and friend of both WG and EBJ. In 1884 he resigned as Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum to become Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum: 'As soon as I came to London and took up journalism ... I began to lay about me on his [EBJ's] behalf against the dunder-headed majority of the critics, for such I held them, who belittled or derided his gift' (S. Colvin, Memories and Notes of Persons & Places (London, 1921), P- 48). 2 Unidentified.