A photostat of a letter on the reverse of the frame reads 'Dec 26 1972/Dear Mr Halwood,/Many thanks for your letter, and/for your cheque in payment for the three bird water/colours. I am so glad you like them and I hope/they will give you more pleasure./ Your enclosure was quite the best Christmas/card I have received this year./Again my thanks, and all good wishes for 1973./Yours sincerely C.F. Tunnicliffe'