| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from John Pettie, 21, St. John's Wood Road, N.W. London, to apologise for not writing from Oban, Mrs. Pettie is expecting a baby at the end of the month, he is back at work, delighted with Millais and thinks Macdonald must have been, too, his picture of a Beefeater is 'grand', Horsley would amuse Macdonald and can talk, he has seen no one but Orchardson, fished happily at Oban, but then caught a cold, 10 October 1876 |