| Description | Letter dated 18 February 1883 to Macdonald from George Reid, R.S.A., 40 Heriot Row, Edinburgh, regarding how his social life has disrupted his correspondence, details of the hanging at the Edinburgh exhibition, John Forbes White's Orchardson is in the same room as Macdonald's Hook, meeting with Pettie, Orchardson, McWhirter, Cameron and others, Sir Fettes Douglas' portrait is finished and he is now to go to Rome with Findlay of The Scotsman, Reid has begun Sir John Steel's portrait, dinner at Irvine Smith's with Professor Tait, Professor Chrystall, J.P.B. Robertson, Sheriff Nicolson, John Forbes White, and others, sorry to hear again of Macdonald's illness. |