Stamped, postmarked, and addressed on verso: Gilbert Dalziel, Esq / Dalkeith, / 107 Fellowes Road, / N.W.
Written in response to a query published by Dalziel in The Publishers' Circularconcerning an illustration by John Millais depicting the subject St. Agnes Eve.
One of a number of letters in the collection concerning Budgett's efforts to fully identify an illustration by John Millais depicting the subject of Tennyson's poem "St. Agnes Eve"; the design was eventually discovered to be an illustration which appeared some time after Millais executed the original drawing, issued as a frontispiece plate in Henry Leslie's "Leslie's Songs for Little Folks" (London, Paris & New York : Cassell & Company Limited, 1883?).
Noting that an edition of Keats' Eve of St. Agnes was published in 1855 by Sampson Low, with illustrations by (Edward Henry) Wehnert, and suggesting that one of the plates might have been engraved by Wehnert after Millais.