| Description | Letter dated c.1867 to Macdonald from George Reid, R.S.A., West United Presbyterian Manse, Haddington, regarding arrival with Mr and Mrs J.F. White to visit 'Maister Thomson' [Rev. Alexander Thomson], visit to Douglas Murray, description of countryside, meeting the retired schoolmaster in Gifford, McKay, and his artist son, visit to the Marquis of Lothian's hothouses, Maister Thomson's stories, readings from John Kelso Hunter's 'a retrospect of an artist's life', which Macdonald will remember, prospect of taking Thomson to London, canniness of Erskine Nicol, dinner with Auldjo Jamieson, and promise to have Chalmers give him a picture, 'Thursday night'. |