| Description | Letter dated 14 February 1871 to Macdonald from George Reid, R.S.A., The Abbert, Hanover Street, Edinburgh, thanking for news about Thomson, problems with a pedestal for a bust, some details of the hanging for the exhibition, concern that his portrait of Thomson has been hung too low and is overshadowed by the frame of the painting above it, but Thomson has responded that 'I am concerned … not at all about myself. I have been accustomed to hang low all my days under the shadow of the gilded frames', artists he and John Forbes White have met and plans to visit Haddington and London, dinner with Auldjo Jamieson. |