| Description | Letter to Hope Macdonald from J. Dove Wilson, The Peak Hydropathic and Thermal Establishment, Buxton, Derbyshire [with illustrated letterhead], enclosing 'another instalment of Mr. Dow's contributions towards an account of your gallery', reference to the suggestion that her own portrait should be painted, Cameron or Orchardson the painter of 'The Broken Tryst', 'Mr. Dow's article - apart from its weakness for fine writing - is very fair', but he is not even-handed with the artists, 'The Hydro - which one of my correspondents has already spelled 'Hydra' - is an amusing place', mild approval of Buxton, thanks for guidebooks, his wife is being massaged 'and in all probability engaged at the same time in blessing me', 31 July 1888 |