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.