Monday morning Oakdene, Guildford My dear I have had a moderately fair night - the heat of yesterday was rather exhausting. I had your note. I don't want you to send for Agnew till I know Poynter's and anyone else's valuation of the B. Rose.1 I want these perfectly independent of and without their having any hint of my own estimate. The market value of your work is in a [transitive] state just now and specially difficult to decide but it will be easy enough by and bye. I should be at a disadvantage with Agnew if I saw him before quite making up my mind what to fix about it. So the sooner you send me that information the better and then if as I fear it proves impossible for me to travel I shall make the best of it and let Mr A. go to you alone. I [venture] to hope he will be well disposed to secure not only the Briar Rose but the Jonesian Maecenasship I once spoke of! How would you like to paint a portrait of him for the R.A. as your diploma picture?!!2 They have sent me down the Angel' [bi?] from Grovr. Place. I didn't want it last week but now it has been a great pleasure. It is far finer than I fully realised. I don't think you have produced any figure so brilliant and rich in colour and it shews your mastery over the whole thing has grown. I was quite too low in my valuation of it and could not think of accepting it at the price you [fixed] - but that doesn't matter to you! What it wants is a companion a child angel (for they never grow old and I doubt if they ever cease to be little children) in an equally rich and brilliant Orange Key - if ever such an inspiration comes - or bid it [to] come if you can. I am so glad you can finish the Wheel3 before I sell it for as it is I could not put the proper ETT value on it and I expect it will just like my own angel exceed my anticipations. In haste up with him. Ever Yours affy W.G. 1 Large Briar Rose series (Buscot Park). 2 EBJ had been elected an ARA on 4 June 1885. 3 Wheel of Fortune. 4 Herbert Jekyll (1846-1932), WG's son-in-law, with whom he was staying.