| Description | Letter dated 27 November 1884 , to Macdonald from J.C. Hook, R.A., Silverbeck, Churt, Farnham, [Surrey], with thanks for etching [?] of Reid's work, 'the Public … perhaps like Hel-of-a graph better', 'I am glad to have such a good account of the bee in your bonnet (the Portrait Gallery) I'm 'no go' at a portrait tho' I began life at it and have since repented of, and given up swearing', sketches of possible pictures for the Duke of Westminster, description of new herbaceous border and begging for cuttings, 'I am annoyed at our lost chance of smashing the Lords', thanks for haddock, 'Wife and I were to go this winter to Spain and Italy but I was afraid of the wretched Quarantine - I wanted to get a few memos of the the small ports of Spain that I might be up in backgrounds for subjects from the life of Columbus. If the cholera scare was to subside we might manage this …' |