Mr Kipling / Dear Sir / Owing to financial difficulties, which alomng with other artists I am labouring under this year, I take the liberty of submitting to you a design intebded to illustrate a poem I know you are writing, on the subject of your cook dancing a jig of joy at the birth of your heir. if it should be fortunate enough to meet with your approvl I could execute it for reproduction by chalcosiderography on a smaller scale suitable to a book illustration - The price of the design is ten shillings, subject to suitable abatement on cash payment. I am / dear sir / Your obedient servant / E. Burne-Jones.