| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from Tom Taylor, Lavender Sweep, Wandsworth, apologising for not having written sooner, he was busy working on the Comedie, Macdonald will have seen the accounts in The Times, most people say they like it, it is to be preserved in the theatre's archives, a pity that the Macdonalds could not have seen some of the performances, unable to go the Academy soiree this year, hopes George Reid enjoyed it, everyone was impressed by him, 'when he ventures on making a plunge into this London vortex … he will emerge and swim', visit to a cemetery monument which will look well when the grass has grown, they have taken the house of the Procurator Fiscal, McLennan, in Portree, for their holiday, and will therefore not be within reach of Kepplestone, his son is working hard with a variety of animals including jack vipers from Africa, 'Tell Reid he is working carefully', looking forward to their holiday, 25 July 1879 |