| Description | [31 May 1887]
2 Holland Park Road, Kensington
Dear Mr King
I should be very sorry not to be present on the day of the inauguration of your most beautiful acquisition - and I wish to be among the first to enjoy the privilege which Richmond has secured for us all - it will however to my great regret be impossible for me to be present during the early and ceremonial part of the inaugural festivity. I have engagements which put it out of my power to do so. I hope however to be in Richmond soon after five o'clock and shall not fail to pay my respects to Lady Ellis. Many thanks for your proposal that I should spend the evening also at Richmond, this unfortunately my engagements make impossible.
I will send you, in compliance with your wish, the latest of my photographs. I have not at this moment one by me.
I am
In haste
Yours faithfully
Fred Leighton
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