| Description | Sunday
Dear Signor
Thank you for your letter - there can be no sort of reason why you should subscribe money for Paris - but your work can't be 'left out'. I won't hear of that. Much none of us need send for the space will be greatly less than in 78. As regards the Holl Memorial I quite understand your feeling but perhaps you may send a trifle - a pound or two - (nobody is allowed to give more than five) - but one is enough - lest you should seem to think less of him than I know you do. I have only been able to get a very hasty look at the exhib. since the opening; I am waiting for longer & lighter days; but I think the Holls look remarkably well; of course it is not by his subject pictures that he will live - but some of the portraits are I think really magnificent of their kind and will 100 years hence, or I am much mistaken, rank very high indeed. I am afraid from the tone of your letter, my dear Signor, that you are feeling less buoyed up by the Brighton air than when last you wrote - tho' the fact that you are evidently working with a relish is a good - indeed one of the best of signs. I am delighted that you are going to have an important work for the R.A.; you don't say what, but I hope it is the big Angel of Death (it is a new one is it not? - not the one you had at the Grosvenor). I will recommend young [Bearle?] to the committee for an invitation to exhibit & I am sure that if space admits they will apply to him - I shall use your name.
Excuse haste & brevity & believe me with mille choses to 'Mrs Mary'
Your aff
Fred Leighton
I am going to send you a copy of my Liverpool rigmarole |