| Description | Letter dated 15 October 1878 to Macdonald from J.C. Hook, R.A., Silverbeck, Churt, Farnham, [Surrey], with request for help in finding a rough deerhound at a cheap price: 'It happens sometimes that a young dog in the course of training takes to his nose instead of keeping to his eyes as in duty bound, such unlucky critters are shot - now as red deer in Churt are scarce and I have no time for sport of any sort an animal doomed to execution wd. suit me as well as a properly behaved dog', complaints of how the railway porters handled his canvases, progress on his new painting room. |