| Description | Letter dated 26 January, probably 1877, to Macdonald from Charles S. Keene, Tizbourne Cottage, Witley, Surrey, thanking for present, agreeing to admonish Tom Gray for not writing, still hoping to talk to Millais, description of his artists' circle in Witley, Surrey, and the comments on them by local society, amusing extract from local auction catalogue (Lot 20: Mill on Liberty; Lot 21: Ditto on the Floss), visit to Birket Fosters for Christmas, Chalmers the Edinburgh artist known as the Bird of the Wilderness for forgetting a song partway through, Stevenson has given Keene a set of Northumbrian bagpipes. |