Autograph letter signed : Paris, to [Marcus Bourne] Huish, undated [1894 Aug. 14].

Reads in full: How very nice and kind of you to think of sending us the Grouse - which will be, as you may well imagine, a great treat in these 'foreign parts'! - I shall look out a bottle of some wonderful old Pouilly - which one of these days I hope to make you taste - for the occasion! et je vous en donnerai des nouvelles. I am much pleased at your appreciation of the care I have taken with the proofs - These four are certainly beauties and had been set aside as I told you at the time of my last printing for 'Crowned Heads' or Museums! But I could not resist your appeal, and though it went to my heart I sent them to you! - Therefore you must choose your man - & not let them go to the premier venu! - Also, as I have told Mr Browne over & over again, plates are as whimsical and as difficult to deal with as horses! and when I do take up these two or three remaining ones, the Lord knows how they may jib and shy and buck & bolt with me - the trouble they will give I know well - and the amount of coaxing and persuasion & light handling required before I get them back into anything like training again! - !! - Now the lithographs - Mr Brown I am sure will like them - and I have three or four still later ones - which I shall send on directly - You will agree with me I dare say that hitherto I have charged too little for my lithographs. Two guineas is really ridiculous - for works that are of course as personal, in their way, as are the etchings in their own - The foolish notion that I must have had in my head was that a much larger public would want them - But practically I find that it [is] absolutely the same little group of collectors! - and though there should be a difference of price between etchings and lithographs because of the difference of cost in their production - beautiful proofs on rare old Dutch paper or chosen Japanese - wait until you see them - certainly can no longer go at two guineas - So you might let it be known that any more of those you already have, will be 3, or 4 - or 5. These quite new, absolutely just from the printers I send tomorrow will be of those prices - Very Sincerely, et avec mille remerciements."