W. S. Burton, Albergo di Vincenzo Maura, S Germano Cassino, Terra di Lavoro, Italy, to [John Everett Millais]

RA Collection: Archive

Reference code

RAA/SEC/4/91/3

Title

W. S. Burton, Albergo di Vincenzo Maura, S Germano Cassino, Terra di Lavoro, Italy, to [John Everett Millais]

Date

29 Jul 1875

Level

Item

Extent & medium

6pp.

Previous reference codes

602, RAC 1, MI 3

Content Description

Burton and his family are ill, in financial distress, and living in squalid accommodation. He relates his problems in detail, and explains that he has hardly been able to work because of his ill health. He asks Millais to introduce an application to the Royal Academy for financial relief.