Friendly letters between artists. Subjects: technique; restoring rotten canvas; models; art-trade and patrons; Academy politics; impressionism; Shields' work; Autotype Company; personal troubles; illness and remedies; family news; dinner invitations; Deceased Wife's Sister Bill; religion; Palestine; Jordan river [with sketches]; Jubilee procession; imperial politics.

Names mentioned include Sir John Everett Millais (1829-1896); Ford Madox Brown; Frederic Leighton Leighton, baron (1830-1896); Thomas Woolner; Lady Leighton; Rossetti; Chapman; John Fleming Leicester de Tabley, baron; Emma Hamilton; Browning's character; Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846); Miss Miller; William Richmond; Charles Rowley; Hughes; Murray; George Reid; Prof. Frederick Settle Barff (1823-1886); Edith, Gladys, and Hilary Holman-Hunt.

There is a sketch on paper at MS 44L:38.