| Description | Letter dated 11 February 1878 to Macdonald from Charles S. Keene, 11 Queen's Road West, Chelsea, regarding Macdonald's bereavement, competition for Northumberland pipes, comic mugs illustrated by Crawhall, 'The painters that I have met I hear are all painting big pictures for the Academy, if we have war about that confounded Eastern Question (I'm staunch on the Turkish and English side) I'm afraid they will fare badly this year', seeing Reid at the Arts Club, visits to Paris and to the Grosvenor Gallery and Burlington House, and related comments on methods of old masters, plans for annual exhibitions at Newcastle, Millais' picture from the Bride of Lammermuir, Lord Rosehill's loan of prehistoric artefacts to the Edinburgh museum, Christie's illness. |