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Durbins Guildford. May 16.11. Dear Mr. Frick I must apologize for some delay having been away in Constantinople & Brusa where I went to study Byzantine art and I got delayed by the illness of one of my party. I have so many pictures to talk of that I must divide them methodically. 1. The Huth Holbein of Sir. Thomas More. This is universally accepted as a Holbein and as probably the first picture which he painted when he came to England. It is more massive more solid in modeling than his later works in England, on the other hand the treatment of the drapery and the jewelled chain is rather heavy and has not his usual elegance of line. The picture is in fairly good condition but needs the varnish