| Description | Letter dated 7 October 1876 to Macdonald from Charles S. Keene, 11 Queen's Road West, Chelsea, with account of visit to Suffolk in hot weather and search for prehistoric flints, practising the bagpipes by the sea, idea for a cartoon but 'too grim for Punch', suggestion that Macdonald should show Millais Dunnottar Castle, 'Business in the picture way is I hear awful', 'the scenery [in Suffolk] is rather Dutch about which there appears to be a sort of 'rage' setting in, flat landscapes and lots of sky! but as there is no railway to the place the fishermen and country people are natural and unspoilt'. |