Autograph letter signed : London, to John Lane, 1898 September 20.

Responding to the recipient's request for permission to publish a drawing by Aubrey Beardsley left by the artist with the writer's father, Edward Coley Burne-Jones and subsequently misplaced; i.e. "I have promised it (after I come across it) to Mrs. Beardsley (the young man's mother). As far as I am concerned you are quite welcome to make any use of it you like - and you need not make the slightest acknowledgment as to its ownership - for I know that my Father had long ceased to take any interest in Mr. Beardsley's work or feel any sympathy with it. ... If you reproduce it, you would be doing me a kindness by omitting all reference to my Father's name."