Excerpt from The Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais, Vol. 1: President of the Royal Academy I cannot adequately thank the many friends who have so generously helped me with contributions, or in allowing me the free use of their pictures for these pages. To Messrs. Graves and Son, Thomas Agnew, Arthur Tooth and Sons, Thomas mclean and Sons, and the Fine Art Society my special thanks are due for liberty to avail my self Of their copyrights; but most of all am I indebted to my father - in-law, Mr. P. G. Skipwith, for his invaluable assistance in preparing this work for the press. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.

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