| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from William F. Yeames, 4, Grove End Road, N.W. London, agreeing to do a self-portrait for Macdonald's collection, 'To be in such good company would be inducement enough for anyone, but when your request is conveyed by that irresistable ambassadress plenipotentiary Mrs. Hodgson … and backed up by that giant Millais, I feel that if I wished … to resist it would be utterly impossible', 5 November 1883 |