My dear Sir

Thank you for your kind letter which was forwarded to me today but too late for me to catch the post.¹

I myself requested M^r Cooper to send me proofs as soon as possible. This is an important thing as very often they need much correction & look very different to the drawings.²

Pray do not take my name out of your introduction. If you have been kind enough to put it there it will be a pleasure to me   The only reasons that I have for being timid in putting my name to wood drawings are first that I do not consider my work in that material at all happy, & secondly that I fear the engravers rendering of it.³

I am Dear Sir | Very truly yours | Briton Riviere