| Description | Dear Signor
I am afraid I don't see me way to do anything in the matter of the proposed Company. I am surrounded by claims of all sorts & spend a frightful lot of money. I could not afford to speculate in this affair - for a speculation it eminently is. And then my dear Signor let me own confidentially that I am not as keen on this paint question as Holman Hunt. Church vouches largely for Windsor & Newton & Robinson and I am bound to own that pigments, at all events in France & England, have never played me any tricks. Look at all your early works! Aren't you satisfied with those colours? I am, pace Hunt & Laurie.
In hot (very hot) haste
Yours affec'ly
Fred Leighton |