| Description | Letter to Hope Macdonald from J. Hodgson, 41, Circus Road, St. John's Wood, London, explaining that the Royal Academy are putting on an exhibition of the work of Frank Holls, and have amongst it a self-portrait painted when Holls was eighteen, asking if they could borrow the self-portrait in Macdonald's collection, which was done late in life, reassurances regarding insurance, etc., saying that he was in Aberdeen recently but she was away, he fished in the Dee but there was no sport, 26 December 1888 |