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8 Wentworth Studios

Chelsea

OPP.: POLYTECHNIC,

MANRESA ROAD.

1909.

Sir –

I beg to ask you if you would grant me the opportunity and privilege of making a portrait study of you — just now — (a drawing for a lithograph)

I venture to ask you for this favour particularly in regard to the forthcoming Centenary Celebrations.²

I should only require one sitting and should not cause you, I hope, any inconvenience — and I should hope to produce a portrait which you may care to have.

I perhaps ought to state clearly that I wish to do this for my own pleasure and that I only desire from you the privilege of a sitting.

I am, | dear sir, | with compliments, vy truly yours | C. Moore-Park³ [signature] (R.B.A., F.Z.S., &c.)

14 June. 1909

In the event of your courteous acquiescence I should, of course, attend upon you at your residence — c.f.