Unidad documental simple 44 - Letter from Roger Fry to R. C. Trevelyan

Florence. - Asks if he can borrow about £250 to buy two pictures he has found in Venice and believes to be two of Jacopo Bellini's lost pieces for the Scuola [Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista], which he wants to secure for the National Gallery. Cannot expect Poynter to buy them. Horne has seen photographs and agrees they are worth the money; if Fry cannot sell them at cost price to the National Gallery Trevelyan will share in any profit. Postscript notes that he has found two more Jacopos in a gallery.

See also 4/43, as well as Fry's letters to Helen Fry, 11 Oct 1902, and Sir Edward Fry, 14 Oct 1902, about the Bellini pictures (printed in Fry, Roger Eliot, & Sutton, Denys. (1972). Letters of Roger Fry / edited with an introduction by Denys Sutton. London: Chatto and Windus, pp 197-199).