By Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
EB-J letter to Mrs Comyns Carr on The Grange headed notepaper
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Saturday evening -
My dear Mrs Comyns Carr / After I sent off this / morning's letter, I ? / me - for my proposal was / cool and approached the / confines of the impertinent. / of course the ? can't / be charged, and some other / evening in the same most / desirable & happy company / will come about, when heaven / has exhausted its venture / (most reasonable vexation I / admit) with me. / I enclose a sketch for my next / picture. it is a new departure / but the public must be humoured / - I have fought the fight of unpopularity / long enough. tell me what you / think. / and give my love to Joe & / Phil & Dolly and the baby. / and I am Youraffec/ EBJ.

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
15/09/2022
Owner Dates Owned Further Info. and Accession no. circa
Alice Vansittart Comyns Carr (Née Alice Strettell) 1927
Title Author/Editor Year Page No. & Illustrations Attachments
Some Eminent Victorians: personal recollections in the world of art and letters Joseph William Comyns Carr 1908
Illus between pp. 78-70
The Last Pre-Raphaelite, Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination Fiona MacCarthy 2011
Illus pl. XXII between pp. 358-359 and pls. 3, 13, 15, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 30, 31, 32, 33 between pp. 486-487 and in the text pp. 2, 43, 50, 71, 87, 112, 115, 135, 192, 203, 238, 248-249, 256, 268, 329, 330, 371, 425, 439, 449, 466 pp. 1-17, 20-24, 26-66, 68-71, 75-93, 95-116, 120-122, 124-132, 134-150, 153-154, 156-168, 170, 172-177, 179-193, 198-191, 194-203, 205, 207-214, 216-224, 229-232, 234-325, 237-240, 242, 244-255, 257-262, 264-269, 270-276, 278-279, 281-307, 309-312-317, 319-347, 357-361, 363-384, 387-389, 392-395, 398-400, 402, 405-416, 418-436, 437-445, 451-458-462, 464-472, 478-481, 483, 485, 487-489, 491-501, 504-508, 509-517, 522-523, 525-530, 534, 536