Oakdene, Guildford Sunday Yes, my dear, I know it is quite true and you would give them all up readily for a thank offering for my recovery or a propitiation for my suffering but now as of old 'none of them can in any wise redeem his brother or give his life as a ransom for him'1 - but surely the will to do it counts. I took such a longing the other day for pics after you were here and thought of all I would like to see, but now please don't send my new Angel [bi?] here - it would excite me and I don't want it. I don't feel up to it it I would like to have the girls by the river with their lamps2 for a little for it is a bit of the old life and I like to live it over again and the Laus Veneris [b2i] if you like - they will be nice for a little while and send the new angel to G. Place for Frances and Aggie who is sleeping there this week one day. I am so sorry you have had another chill. I fear it was the late return journey from here and no furcoatl Yes you have to be prudent - how I wish I had been more so this past winter I might have been well now! I hate whipping you up to work but I am sure it is both wise from a business point of view and kinder to yourself to take some clippings of time and workpower for immediate practical ¿£.S.D. purposes and if only your health holds I trust this year's efforts may make the future less anxious and less of a strain. Last week has been on the whole rather a trying one for me - a good deal of pain, and weariness but today I am earlier dressed and lying in the sunshine which is nice. The Briar rose3 must be ready for Agnew to see now and I hope to come to town for a couple of nights on purpose for this and other litde things. Don't forget I want you to have Poynter's4 and Morris'5 opinion about the selling value of the series just as a guide and support to my own before tackling Agnew! With love to you all. Yours affy W.G. 1 Psalms y xlix.7. 2 This is probably The Boat (private collection), described by de Lisle ( Bume-Jones (London, 1904), p. 184) as watercolour, 3 1 x 59Í in. It was not included in the Graham inventory or sale, but may have belonged to him, as it was recorded by de Lisle as belonging to his son-in-law, Herbert Jekyll, in 1904. 3 Large Briar Rose series (Buscot Park). 4 Edward John Poynter (1836-1919), painter and law of EBJ. 5 William Morris (1834-96), designer, socialist and friend of EBJ.