Brighton, Thursday Night, Nov. 23rd, 1848.
My dear Stone,
We are unanimous.
The drawing of Milly on the chair is charming. I cannot tell you how much the little composition and expression please me. Do that, by all means.
I fear she must have a little cap on. There is something coming in the last part, about her having had a dead child, which makes it yet more desirable than the existing text does that she should have that little matronly sign about her. Unless the artist is obdurate indeed, and then he'll do as he likes.
I am delighted to hear that you have your eye on her in the students' room. You will really, pictorially, make the little woman whom I love.
Kate and Georgy send their kindest remembrances. I write hastily to save the post.
Ever, my dear Stone,
Faithfully yours.
Mr. Frank Stone.
Bedford Hotel, Brighton, Monday Night, Nov. 27th, 1848.