Daniel Maclise letter to Richard Redgrave

"My Dear Redgrave, I have just returned to Town after a trip and a cruise amid the highlands & islands of Scotland - this I inform you of in excuse of my not answering your note sooner - with respect to the Paris Exhibition of next year, I should like to send my picture of Strongbow [The Marriage of Strongbow and Aife] - if room could be found for it on the floor - and I have reason to hope that its possessor (Lord Northwick[?]) might give it up for the purposes of Exhibition - if this did not make too great of a demand on the space - perhaps I might be able to add the picture of Caxton [Caxton Showing the First Specimen of His Printing to King Edward IV at the Almonry, Westminster]- Should you give me a word of advice on the subject? and say whether you approve my ideas-- Believe me very faithfully yours, Daniel Maclise.