| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from W.Q. Orchardson [no address], asking if the sketch has arrived yet as he has found that his servant forgot to pay the carriage on it, urging Macdonald to 'abolish the ovals' [the shape of canvas for his collection of artists' portraits], 'they are weakly ornamental and savour of the trumpery', Pettie has done his sketch but they did not discuss the shape, 'Wednesday', November 1881 |