MY DEAR STONE,

We are unanimous.

The drawing of Milly on the chair is CHARMING. I cannot tell you how

much the little composition and expression please me. Do that, by all

means.

I fear she must have a little cap on. There is something coming in the

last part, about her having had a dead child, which makes it yet more

desirable than the existing text does that she should have that little

matronly sign about her. Unless the artist is obdurate indeed, and then

he'll do as he likes.

I am delighted to hear that you have your eye on her in the students'

room. You will really, pictorially, make the little woman whom I love.

Kate and Georgy send their kindest remembrances. I write hastily to save

the post.

Ever, my dear Stone,

Faithfully yours.

[Sidenote: Mr. Frank Stone.]

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