| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from Mary Millais, 2 Palace Gate, Kensington, thanking on her father's behalf for the fish, describing their day at Oxford where Millais was giving a speech and was well received, lunch at All Souls' College and a fete in New College gardens, 'he dined with the Christ Church dons but had to come away in the middle of it as he was obliged to be back in London to begin the Bishop of Manchester', she has not had much time to read 'Johnny Gibb [of Gushetneuk, by William Alexander, publ. 1880]' but hopes to soon, 10 June 1880 |