| Description | Letter dated 5 May 1879 to Macdonald from J.C. Hook, R.A., Silverbeck, Churt, Farnham, [Surrey]: 'Your portrait tho' well seen in the Lecture Room is hung three feet too high', account of Academy dinner and the people he met there, 'the tobacco vase is a great success and what a lovely bit of stone it is made of all say it is too good for its intention but can anything be too good when it has to be always in sight'. |