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of Archdeacon Fisher, he was dissatisfied with the Picture, and it was then purchased by Mr. Mirehouse. When we bought it, we thought so much of it that we employed Mr. Brunet Debaines - then considered the first etcher in Europe - to reproduce the Picture, and I send by bearer a copy of this etching, which I should be glad if you would present to Mr. Frick (who you told me is the purchaser of the picture) with our compliments. It is a beautiful Picture, and my only regret is that you beat me at the Sale. I should very much have liked to have bought it. There are two other Pictures of Salisbury ^from the same view painted by Constable, which differ in some small ways. The other two of this subject Constable never sold: they were sold in his Sale after his death. One of them passed into the possession of the South Kensington Museum, and the other is now in the Collection of Mr. Arthur Lee, M.P. I think this is all the information I can give you.

Yours very faithfully, signed: Lockett Agnew

Charles Carstairs, Esq., Messrs. Knoedler & Coy.,

Lockett Agnew