| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from John Pettie, 21 St. John's Wood Road, N.W. London, delighted that Macdonald has purchased 'Silvius and Phoebe', he will consider his advice before the Royal Academy exhibition next year, hopes that Macdonald will be able to reuse the packing case then, off to Devon tomorrow, hoping to go north at the end of the year, hoping to meet Chalmers and Cameron, rarely does sketches but will try one for Mrs. Macdonald's scrapbook, 4 July 1871 |