| Description | Letter dated 22 January 1881 to Macdonald from George Reid, R.S.A., St. Luke's, Aberdeen, asking him to stop 'James Kerr's lame-legged son' from shooting 'those wretched half-starved birds … If you don't do something to stop this sort of game I shall take the law into my own hands and heuk his gun over his head!', followed by a plea on the birds' behalf, hopes that [George Washington] Wilson photographed the Millais portrait well, with note on end from Macdonald: 'This is G.R. posing as a Prig, as if my wife had not cherished the birdies too 18 years, and made the place a haven of refuge, to the annoyance of all our neighbours'. |