Edward Burne-Jones Papers

Typed copies of eleven letters (first three as a single item) from William Graham to Edward Burne-Jones, some partial. Making payment for various works including "Cupid and Psyche", the "Days of Creation" and "the Ladye I fell in love with at your studio the other day and which you kindly promised me I should have" (XXV.12); agrees to send "Chant d'amour" and about changes to "Laus Veneris" drawing; asks about development of "Cupid and Psyche" among other works; expresses interest in purchase of other pictures including "Love is Passing", "Love as Reason", and requests further pictures to accompany the existing "choristers" to decorate an "unbearably ugly" organ (XXV.14); acknowledges receipt of various items including "Love the Philosopher" and the "Danae", which he is disposed to keep and give his brother something else—"'The Ring given to Venus' or the like" (XXV.17); sends Tintoretto he has purchased; voices doubts about making the picture of the Virgin raising the child "a £500 picture" (XXV.16).