An Original Hand Written Letter and Signed by Sir John Everett Millais. Dated 1880. Autograph Letter Signed, ‘J.E. Millais’, 2 Palace Gate, Kensington, 27 July 1880, to Principal [John] Caird [at the University of Glasgow], concerning his portrait [now in the Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow], ’In a day or two I will send you your robe, and I want you to send me the name of a good photographer to whom I will send a very rough photo of your portrait, which please don't look at, which will enable him to take a photograph of you in the town just as I have painted you that I may be sure of one or two little points in the picture. I will send the photograph for instructions if you will kindly supply me with his name and address’, 2 pages with integral blank leaf, Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, 1829-1896 was an English painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He was a child prodigy who, aged eleven, became the youngest student to enter the Royal Academy Schools. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded at his family home in London, at 83 Gower Street. Millais became the most famous exponent of the style. Provenance: From the family of autograph collector Emily Mary Rose Lee (1869-1949), wife of Colonel William Crawford Walton (1864-1937). Emily was the daughter of William Lee, Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Glasgow from 1874 to 1886, and granddaughter of John Lee (1779-1859), Principal of Edinburgh University from 1840 to 1859. Size is 178m x 115mm. Condition is good. Folding crease.