TALBOT1467

22 Aug

Dear Henry

I have just got a letter from Wallis ¹ saying he is ready to begin y^r Correggio ² directly & asking me to beg that it may be moved into a good light – & promise it shall be done in a month which I will neither exact nor answer for as it had better be done well – Nobody here can tell the present duty on pictures & frames in England – so I shall send none just yet as there is a rumour it is to be lowered – Wallis asks a high price – 40 Louis for the size of the original – less if done in small which I think you would not like so I think it hardly worth bargaining for. Being an English artist his picture will pay nothing. I wish you could transport a villa from Florence to London – Let Kit ³ know of the books I have here.

Y^r Aff^te
W F S

Pray go to Ab. ⁴ & Moreton ⁵ this summer. I have seen Carlina Acanthifolia –

Henry Talbot Esq
31 Sackville Street
London