| Description | Letter dated 2 November 1878 to Macdonald from J.C. Hook, R.A., Silverbeck, Churt, Farnham, [Surrey], with thanks for deerhound, to be called Dugald [later changed to Donald], 'You are quite right - nothing could be more unsatisfactory than the whole Paris fiasco & the wonder is that men of the calibre of Millais & Pettie & Calderon &c. can have allowed themselves to have been taken up by the necks like blind kittens by Colonel this or H.R.H. that and treated to the quantity of warm milk found for their respective mewing powers'. |