My dear I think I shall go off to Scotland tonight and may not be back for some days. You asked me the other day about money matters and in case it [should] be a convenience I send herewith a cheque for £300 to account which may tide over till we can come to more definite understanding with Balfour1 and Agnew at all events. I think we might sell to Agnew one or two of these upright figures and altho I behaving shabbily about the one2 he bought from the Grosvenor one must put or rather stifle them, and make to oneself friends of the unrighteous Mammon. Ever Yours affy W.G. Tuesday 24/3/85 Lord W. said to me the other evening he hoped to complete the balance of the Cophetua3 this year. 1 Arthur James Balfour (1848-1930), politician and member of the 'Souls'. He had commissioned the Perseus series (Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart) in 1875 for the music room of his London home, 4 Carlton Gardens, but only four scenes were completed, the first being exhibited in 1887. See A.J. Balfour, Chapters of Autobiography (London, 1930), p. 233. 2 Perhaps The Cumaean Sibyl (private collection, USA), exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery in 1877 and bought by Agnew for his own collection: see The Reproductive Engravings after Sir Edward Coley Bume-Jones (Julian Hartnoll, London, 1988), p. 20. 3 Tate Gallery 1771. The total price was £3,000.