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Selected Letters Letter from Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt. to G.F. Watts, dated 7 May 1878, requesting permission to have Watts's portrait of him engraved for a publication.
 

2, Palace Gate,
Kensington.
7 May 1878

Dear Watts
Mr Trendall has asked me to let him engrave your portrait of me for a publication. You have already I believe allowed them to engrave Leighton but I do not like to give the permission without consulting you. It is to come

 

out with a Biography.

Yours sincerely
JE Millais

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