Dear Mr. Thomas. / Mr. Rooke forwarded to me your letter and list of / EB-J's works. I am afraid you will be wondering / why you have not had a reply before this. Time flys is / all I can say. However - I am astonished at the / length of the list, and how comparatively few of / the pictures I have seen - or seen and but lost / my conscious memory =. Thus I have no doubt if I / saw a picturre of them they would be recognised. / I am afraid I am quite a useless person in / the way of helping you in any of the details you are / doubtful of. I have no notion of where The Merciful / Knight is in this. it is one of the most delightful of EB-Js pictures. I feel sure I have seen it recently, / but where? I am getting on in years so I have / lost touch with the passing of time, and I may / therefore think I saw something recently though it / may have been many years ago. / His the 'Beguiling of Merlin' I think I have seen / a short while ago - but where? / I can not give you any help in discovering who "Becky Ross Evans / are - or were. / Your reference to my share (of the work) in the products of / of the Kelmscott Press was not generally known which / was due to EB-Js objection to having a long list of / names in the colophon of the Chaucer. I had however / the unstinted praise of W. Morris' intmate friends for my / translation of the pencil drawings. All but about 6 of the / Chaucer designs were drawn by Fairfax Murray. Besides the / Chaucer I (did a good many others) translated a good / many of the drawings including "The Beginning of The World" / which has (a foreward by) an appreciation foreword by Lady / B-J. - Joseph Pennell remarked upon the absence of any / acknowledgement of my share in the work, ? ? Joseph Pennell - / ? as ghost. His remarks were much resented - However / EB-J - expressed himself as highly pleased with what I did - / and I have letters from William de Morgan Frederick Ellis / showing appreciative recognition of my services - / I am glad to(hear of) know of your opinion of my work. / I am interested to know you are married to a pupil / of mine. - time and failing memory have wiped out my / recollection of Miss Davies (?). As a matter of fact / I did not often know the name of a pupil altho / in constant touch with him or her - I have rather a dim / remembrance of Miss Spurway. / I too am particularly fond of EB-Js early work, and / may perhaps within the acceptance of the ? - I think / those early works have more care in them, more / imagination. Later his fancy - and his invention got the / upper hand - Beautiful and wonderful as it was. / I should like to keep the typed catalogue - you / sent me - if you can spare it. / I hope sometime to have the pleasure of meeting / you in the flesh -
Referring to Burne-Jones's work, with a discussion about the Kelmscott Chaucer.