B490, Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum is a short run of letters from Morris Walton and Co, relating to the portrait [1998.493.1] engraved from a photography by Morris Walton and Co. in the early 1880s. The surviving correspondence is given in full below:
Memorandum
Jan 13th 1883
From: Morris Walton & Co | Publishers | 392 Strand London W.C.
To: Gen Pitt Rivers | Rushmore Salisbury
Sir, We shall be willing to produce a new drawing of your portrait from the photograph left with us on Friday and will suppress the old one, if you will give us an order for £21 worth of the new portraits when completed. We could not cancel the present ac/- we have against you as we find we have a number of the old portraits already printed & ready for issue, and these of course we should have to sacrifice
Waiting your reply We are Sir
Yrs obedly
Morris Walton & Co
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Memorandum
Jan 17th 1883
From: Morris Walton & Co | Publishers | 392 Strand London W.C.
To: Gen Pitt Rivers | Rushmore | Salisbury
Sir, We shall esteem it a favour if you will kindly let us know your decision about the proposed new portrait as soon as possible. We are sorry to trouble you with this request, but are anxious to make the necessary arrangements for the suppression of the original portrait in accordance with your wish, and the sooner we know of your decision the easier can this be done
We are Sir
Your most obedt Servts
Morris Walton & Co
[in pencil] Make the new portrait
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Memorandum
March 15th 1883
From: Morris Walton & Co | Publishers | 392 Strand London W.C.
To: Gen Pitt Rivers | Rushmore Salisbury
Sir, We beg respectfully to inform you that we are redrawing your portrait in the exact position etc as shown in the photograph and which we trust will this time meet with your approval. We hope to have it completed shortly and will then write and ask you kindly to call and see it on the stone
We are Sir
Yours obediently
Morris Walton & Co
P.S. It will be a 3/4 length portrait as you were good enough to suggest so as to show more of the figure
Transcribed by AP for the Rethinking Pitt-Rivers project August 2011
