| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from John Pettie, The Lothians, Fitzjohn's Avenue, South Hampstead, London, delighted with the pedestals, just arrived, 'when I have something worthy of putting on them I will be quite grand', Lawson is doing a marble bust of his second son, nearly time for sending material in for the Royal Academy exhibition, 'F. Holls' portraits will make a sensation this year, they are fine', John Forbes White called on Pettie on his way to Spain, 'lucky man', looking forward to seeing Macdonald at the dinner, he has had a bad cold, hoping George Reid has something good, Mr. Aird has bought all Pettie's pictures and has a flower piece by Reid, Calderon has been ill and cannot finish his principal work for the Academy, 30 March 1882 |