| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from Tom Taylor, Redcliff Cottage, Portree, Isle of Skye, just about to set out for Glenelg, great holiday and now friends with the Sheriff, description of their holiday activities with his family, including hearing piping and seeing Highland dancing, the local girls are very pretty, stamina of locals who socialise all night and deal with the herring the next day, plans for journey home, which involves a week in Oban with the Carmichaels and visits to Staffa, Mull and Iona, then home via Glasgow by sea, he then has to rehearse two parts in a performance of 'As You Like It' in Manchester for the benefit of Charles Calvert's family, 'We owe it him, we who love the art of the stage', reflections on his work in Manchester and in Shakespearian theatre, sorry to have missed Kepplestone this year, 1 September 1879 |