Tuesday My dear When I awoke this morning after such a good night I got the words home to me in the early light ' and they came to Elim where there were twelve wells of water 91 and felt happier and more refreshed than for many days and then in an hour or two the ladder came and its angels and it seemed the nicest thing2 I had had for a long time and I have been looking at it on the mantelpiece all day - and some dear friends - specially dear ones have been - and now Agnew has just gone and has behaved so well and so kindly and it is all settled and the price is £ 1 5,000 - He will send a writing to confirm it.3 He would have given money if desired but I said no we didn't need any till they were done and you will do your best to forward the work injustice to all concerned for life is so short and full of uncertainties and I am confident that Agnew will be a real friend if you will kindly allow him (bearing with any little per contras!) and he knows you are to 4 earn your bread9] meantime and will dispose of any work you have to sell for current wants4 - (but don't sell anything without my knowing first just for my curiosity you know) - and I think I will keep the Merlin5 for Grosvr. P. collection that it may have some later work in it. And it has been all pleasure and no trouble at all with Agnew - so goodbye my dear and when you write me notes put three dabs of colour in the corners just like having a grape when my mouth is dry. Your loving friend W.G. 1 Exodus , XV. 27. 2 Unidentified. 3 William Agnew wrote to WG, T think it will be a satisfaction to you if I give a memorandum to show that I have accepted the offer made on behalf of our mutual friend Burne-Jones viz. to pay the sum of ¿1 5,000 for his four large pictures illustrating the Legend of the Briar Rose. The pictures to be exhibited by my firm and the copyright to be included in the purchase.' Quoted in Agnew's 1817-1967 (London, 1967), pp. 33-34: the date given - 1889 - should be 1885. 4 From 1885 Agnew became EBJ s regular dealer. 5 WG did not do so.