| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from John Pettie, 21 St. John's Wood Road, N.W. London, reporting that his 'Silvius and Phoebe' is almost finished, hopes of its being in next year's Royal Academy exhibition, it is larger than he had thought it would be, it may be too large for Macdonald, price and condition of exhibition, asking for confidentiality if Macdonald decides to return it, plans to go to Devon to sketch, hot summer forecast in town, 18 June 1871 |