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This is a follow-up message to the one sent to request your kind permission to reproduce in a research monograph authored by me an image published in your gallery. The image I refer to is titled:
‘A view of Kandy, Ceylon 1880-1885 #IMG258B
I shall be most grateful for an early response to this request.
G. H. Peiris