| Description | Letter to Macdonald from R.D. Blackmore, Teddington, with thanks for present, encloses photograph of himself (no longer with the letter), 'there has been an absurd and annoying attempt on the part of some magazines, and other periodicals, to obtain my saturnine phiz. But I have hitherto foiled all such petty curiosity', offer to send runners of a strawberry 'much earlier than Black Prince' [Early Princess], hopes that Mrs. Macdonald is now well, 24 December 1884 |