| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from John Pettie, 21, St. John's Wood Road, N.W. London, saying that he has found a half-written letter to Macdonald but will start afresh, sorry to hear that Macdonald has been ill, bad winter has caused much illness, trying to buy some ground in Fitzjohn's Avenue, 'one of the finest roads in the north of London', where Long has built a house, and Poole also had one, hoping to build a house with a large studio or two, 'In fact studios with a house attached!', the freehold is £3,000, Mr. Wallace is the architect, good night hosted by Henry Irving with supper under a tent on the stage, Orchardson to propose that Macdonald is invited to the Royal Academy banquet, he is not very political, he did not know of Dr. Farquharson's standing, view of Orchardson's picture of Napoleon, dimensions of Pettie's largest picture, description of Millais' 'Cherry Ripe' and its effect at an exhibition in Bond Street, and other works there, sketch of Lawson and suggestion that he could do the statue of Wallace planned for Aberdeen, March 1880 |