| Description | Letter dated 28 December 1881 to Macdonald from J.C. Hook, R.A., Silverbeck, Churt, Farnham, [Surrey], regarding wallflowers blooming in December, reflection that the Methodists in Devon and Cornwall are unaware that some of their traditions 'are relics of the worship of Baal', and hopes that they will not realise before he has painted them, meeting of the Etching Club and those present, rumours of George Reid's illness, he is 'rather weak knee'd in politics'. |