| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from W.W. Onless, apologising for not having written but very busy as Visitor to the Royal Academy Schools for the month, thanks for kindness regarding the Esslemont portrait, and possible arrangements for doing it, bad weather and little news, good work being done by Millais but he has seen nothing else, hopes that Tadema's self-portrait has reached him safely, Onless is painting Hodgson and hopes to send it to the Royal Academy exhibition, 12, Bryanston Square, London, 14 January 1884 |