| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from John Everett Millais, 2 Palace Gate, Kensington, apologising for delay in writing but explaining that his wife's sister Mrs. Caird has been ill, and was buried yesterday, he has asked Du Maurier to let him sketch him for Macdonald's portrait gallery, Macdonald is to be asked to the Academy dinner, Effie is in Florence, 19 March 1882 |