Sunday / My dear Ellis / In your Catalogue is a book / I must must see - the Mantegna / book of helmets & babies - / if it isnt gone may / I see it I will at the / end of tomorrow's work - that / is about 6 present myself / at your blissful & tempting / place - / if its the book I think / O how I want it / Yours very truly / EBJ.
The letter to the publisher and bookseller F S Ellis, eagerly enquiring about a 'Mantegna book of helmets and babies', must date from after 1879 when Burne-Jones's address was changed from Fulham to West Kensington. The book in question has not been identified.