Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to Mrs. Hewitt, undated.

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Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to Mrs. Hewitt, undated.

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Answering her questions on Pre-Raphaelitism as follows: "Does Pre-R-ism deny the ideals? No. It proposes the highest of all ideals. Does it profess to paint things as they are or as you see them? As you see them. A work [sic] important point of principle. Do such and such feelings argue deficiency of ideality or a more exacting ideal? Probably both but certainly the last. I should have said only the last were it not that I entirely share your feelings and my exacting idealism is associated with an absence of power to invent for myself. I think some people can invent a painting with whatever they like. I can't. I see nothing but what is there."

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Pierpont Morgan Library.

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