| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from John Pettie, 21 St. John's Wood Road, N.W. London, apologising for delay in writing, had hopes of offering a painting just now completed to Mr. Peddie, but it has been claimed by another buyer, hopes of offering Mr. Peddie something next year, about to start an interior which will be intended for the Royal Academy exhibition, hard work this summer out of doors, fine autumn made sketching enjoyable, all his friends have settled down to winter work and he has no news, Orchardson has begun a small street scene, George Reid in London briefly, hoping to see Macdonald next year, 1 November 1871 |