| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from William Stott, 81 Windsor Road, Oldham, announcing that he has just returned from Paris, visit to Sargent who had several Venetian paintings but had been waiting for Stott to arrive and tell him what kind of sketch Macdonald wants, he has only two works unsold but he and Stott agree they are the best ones, description of them, one of girls in a narrow street in Venice, the other of girls sorting beads in an interior scene, 'had I the money I would flatly own it myself', suggestion that Macdonald should write directly to Sargent in Paris, 6 February 1883 |