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Regarding Morris Moore's painting 'Apollo and Marsyas' which the National Gallery refused to buy as a Raphael [now in the Louvre as 'Apollo and Daphnis', and attributed to Perugino]. Includes offprint of letter to the Morning Post.

Bayswater.- Morris Moore should succeed Seguier [at the National Gallery]: he is the best judge of Italian pictures in the country; 'He is an anti humbug and therefore is not likely to have many supporters'; can Milnes contrive it?

The National Gallery appointment is in the gift of Milnes' 'despotic master, 'orange' Peel, & could you soften his obdurate heart, [Morris] Moore would be pretty sure of the post; Milnes will perceive Moore's suitability if he calls; 'Mere picture dealing sagacity does not go far, & public taste needs direction, & has already too many purveyors to its pampered & gross appetite'.