| Description | Dear Signor
Your note catches me on my way thro' Dublin. I'm delighted to find that you are willing to let the Nat. Port. Gallery have your splendid series of portraits at once. Depend upon it that you have this time fulfilled, and admirably, your aspiration to serve your country; we, at the Gallery, shall indeed be proud of our acquisitions which will artistically and historically be a treasure to those who follow us as well as to ourselves. I'm not particularly fit. I go up and don - not very often up - but I'm doing my best, in luxurious idleness!
Ever yours affec'ly
Fred Leighton
p.s. There is nothing to 'talk over' with Cust. He wants the things very badly. He wants you to hand them over - do. |