81 Drayton Gardens
June 23rd 1892
Dear Sir
My mother wishes me to answer your kind letter and give you the information you wish.
In the first place there is a misunderstanding; my mother when she met Mr R was not a widow. She was at her home, staying in Sussex and her then was Cox! She fixes the date in 1859 being about a year before she married Mr Hughes who being an engineer worked at Messrs Maudslay’s in Lambeth and while there Mr Hughes and my mother both sat to Mr R at Blackfriars, my mother first appearing in the picture of Dante meeting Beatrice coming down some steps, and Mr Hughes is in the Llandaff Triptych.
The pamphlet I have not had priced yet nor have we any idea of what its market value is but as my mother knows and I that you would not underrate such a unique little thing she is perfectly willing that you should possess it at your own valuation.
I am glad to be able to say that my mother’s leg is getting better and she is well.
In any little matter that you would like to ask us I hope you will not refrain for it gives us both pleasure to satisfy you who have a genuine interest in one who was a kind friend to us.
In conclusion I hope you are well and please accept my mother’s and my best remembrances.
Yours sincerely
Fred J Schott
S. Bancroft Esq
