FRANCIS

(1840-1916, 1st President of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours), explaining that he leaves here on my return to England on Monday next, to meet Princess Mary at Easton (in Suffolk, the Duchess of Hamilton's), so cannot accept yr. kind invitation to visit the Exhibition on Tuesday the 27th, but trusts to... do so later on, embossed crowned 'FT', 2 sides 8vo black edged, Royal Palace, Stuttgart, 23rd October