| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from W.Q. Orchardson, 1, Spenser Street, Victoria Street, London, just returned from Paris with his wife, where they had 'a surfeit of art - not all fine by any means', difficult to find anything either 'refined without being weakly or manly without being stilted', work is currently preventing him from travelling north, he will let him know as soon as he has a 'vista', hoping that Macdonald is better again, June 1884 |