| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from Henry T. Wells, 15, Stratford Place, West London, saying that he remembers Macdonald quite clearly and would indeed have called on him had he been in Scotland, he has acted on Macdonald's advice as to a Gainsborough but doubts that it will be included in the Old Masters Exhibition this year as it seems to be full, he feels he can recommend it as Col. Brown showed him a photograph of it, gives his prices for full length portraits and frames and thanks Macdonald for trying to arrange work for him, which he thinks he could promise by August, interested in his account of his new purchases, mention of George Mason and Wells' efforts to find something by him that would suit Macdonald, 'much as I delight to haunt his studio', 'his health is most wretched', but now he might be willing to part with one of his small paintings done direct from nature, Wells is keen to buy them himself but some are a little too expensive for him, one shows a Staffordshire moor, the other sheaves of corn in a field, 28 November 1871 |