| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from Henry T. Wells, Thorpe Lodge, Campden Hill, West London, thanking for invitation but Aberdeen is a little far from Arisaig, after Shropshire he is to go on to Wales while his family returns home, Macdonald seems to have all the London artistic news, Wells prefers not to be involved in squabbles, 'I think our heated friends are simply off their heads on the question', which involves British policy in International exhibitions, a scheme of selection of the best so as not to be outdone by France and Belgium, which has many artists irate as they feel that every British artist is as good as another, 11 August 1877 |