| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from George du Maurier, New Grove House, Hampstead, London, thanking him for his letter, sorry to have missed him on his annual visit, not sure whether in the autumn they will travel to Scotland, Normandy or up the Thames, hoping to meet Mrs. Macdonald, plans to take their eldest daughter (who has just come out) to a dance at Millais', he is 'painting, I think, better than ever. He is the painter of his age, acknowledged by all here as such, and as universally liked as he is admired', delighted that it should be his daughter's first dance there, praise of the present crop of portrait painters, including Onless and Gregory, sorry to hear of Charles Keene's trouble, 28 May [1883] |