| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from Effie Millais, 2 Palace Gate, Kensington, thanking for the haddock, delay in her thanks as she wanted to hear first what he thought of Millais' self-portrait, about a hundred people saw it at an afternoon party she had last week, and she was reluctant to let it go, impossible to get Millais to make copies of anything, wonderful that he finished it so quickly, 'I think when you look at that likeness … you will always be pleased it is so fresh, so like and so entirely pleasant and like the man himself', he has just returned from a stay with Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, comments on the Baron's new house 'in the style of Blois', near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, description of the interior, in good taste 'which cannot be said of many millionaires places where things bought by money make one ill to look at', invitation from Lady Wallace, bad weather, 7 June 1883 |