The life and letters of Sir John Everett Millais, president of the Royal Academy

by John Guille Millais

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 ...now compelled to give up work altogether for some months. Millais refers to this in the following Mr. Du Maurier. " 2 Palace Gate, " December 26th, 1891. " Dear George,--I miss your work in Punch, and rather suspect the reason i§ your old trouble.... " I am only just recovering, and very slowly, from a severe attack of influenza; and both my wife and son John are down with it, attended by comely professional nurses, but hardly making any progress towards recovery. Peter Ibbetson, 11--18 " The marriage of my daughter was a pretty boom, followed immediately by the prostration of nearly all the family except the happy lovers; and I don't know when again life will be worth living. " I finished Peter Peter Ibbetson and we were all delighted with it--so original and so full of wise reflections. I care not what the professional literary critic says about the book displays refined taste, and is full of plums; and the illustrations are delightful. "Now, dear boy, how do you like lecturing? And did you hold forth on lovely woman? I do hate speaking in public, and cannot imagine you can like it; but if it pays, well and good. " Do not bother to answer this yourself. Sylvia can tell me how you are. I saw her at the wedding, and she will have told you the bridegroom was tall enough! The studio refuses to look itself again since it was converted into a jeweller's shop with the presents; and I am very unhappy out of it. In a few days, however, I hope to be back in Scotland. This week's fog has quite crushed the spirit out of Yours sincerely, "J. E. Millais." In the following year, alas, the clouds began to gather about him. Another attack of influenza laid him low; and though, after a long illness, he ...

Genres: Biography

2 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 12, 1899

About the author

John Guille Millais (24 March 1865 – 24 March 1931) was a British artist, naturalist, ornithologist, gardener and travel writer who specialized in wildlife and flower portraiture.

Millais travelled extensively around the world in the late Victorian period detailing wildlife often for the first time. He is noted for illustrations that are of a particularly exact nature. .

He was a son of the artist Sir John Everett Millais and his wife Euphemia Gray.