The Published entry for 30 June 1893 - ... Burne-Jones invited Judith to sit for him. During the two hour sitting Burne-Jones's related entertaining stories of Morris ... 19 June 1898 ... He was to have painted Judith as one of the figures for his last picture, The Vale of Avalon. ... His diary for 1 January 1885 records a conversation with BurneJones about ‘W.M.s new departure, which both of us regret, especially as it will lead to worry and perhaps broken health, and certainly neglect of art’. A later letter from Jane, of 2 September 1888, makes a strange reference to herself and to politics: ‘When shall we see you here? Don’t quite forget your poor old, bald, toothless, broken backed friend ... I have a new disease called “Socialism on the brain”. I forget if I acquainted you with the fact before - if so pray forgive me, as loss of memory is but another symptom of the same malady’.16 ... In October 1890 had Blunt recorded: ‘we went over to see Burne-Jones and talk over a design for the tapestry Morris is to make for me’. This was a replica of ‘The Adoration of the Magi’ in the chapel at Exeter College, to which Blunt wanted an Arab horse and a camel to be added. This was done – Morris & Co. was, after all, a business. ... In August 1895 Blunt recorded ‘much interesting talk with Morris’ at the Manor, and he later went to Merton Abbey to see another tapestry that he had commissioned, based on Botticelli’s Primavera. He noted: ‘I doubt its being equal to The Adoration of the Magi’.31 Later critics have shared this view. 16. Price’s Diary, quoted by permission of Lorraine Bowsher; JM Letters, p.149. Jane’s political outlook is discussed by Sharp & Marsh (JM Letters, pp. 100101).