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believing it was better to name a price and keep to it. It may be unusual to offer it to you directly and not through a dealer, but I want it to go to a fine collection, and yours and Mr. Walters' were the two I had thought of, when I found I needed to part with it, as I do now because we have just acquired a new house. The Forbes family considered this the finest drawing owned by them, and wanted to withdraw the Millet after we had offered a round sum for three of the Forbes pictures. We could not comply with this request, as