| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from John Pettie, 21 St. John's Wood Road, N.W. London, reporting that he has just been to the Royal Academy but cannot see George Reid's port'ait, only something he supposes is by Archie Reid, all bad news and bad hanging, 'I'll write when I'm calmer', [next day] 'Cant' see anything of Reid's, plenty portraits but few of them as good as his will be, fussiness of Academy, remarks on Millais' and Orchardson's pictures, including Millais' of Duke of Westminster, Cameron is all right, Hook is planning to visit Shetland and hopes to meet Macdonald, good picture by Israels on the line, sxciting visit to Edinburgh, called on Harvey, Peter Graham is fighting the Royal Scottish Academy, delighted with visit to Kepplestone, Mrs. Pettie will send the photographs when they are ready, he would write more gossip but he is in the Royal Academy and everyone is around, Millais threatened to correct Pettie's pictures himself, sorry he failed to sell one of Graham's pictures to Christie, Orchardson now longing to visit Aberdeen based on Pettie's description, 26 - 27 April 1872 |