| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from Henry T. Wells, Thorpe Lodge, Campden Hill, West London, thanking him for a dinner invitation, glad he is to come to the Royal Academy dinner, Wells has been involved in the hanging this year which is wearing, and he is not very well, 'The slaughter had to be dreadful for I think there must have been nearly 4,000 works offered to us in excess of those we could place', disappointed that Mrs. Macdonald is not coming to London, 23 April 1878 |