| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from John Pettie, 21, St. John's Wood Road, N.W. London, saying that he has just written to Hook and now wants to write to Macdonald instead of starting work, thanks for letter, he cannot go to Scotland at present as he is selecting pictures for the exhibition and then on the schools in April and May, hoping to be in Scotland in the autumn, hopes of Macdonald being in London to see the Royal Academy exhibition, rumours of illness in Mrs. Macdonald and their son, visit to Hook: 'Silverbeck is such a Hooky place! You would imagine he had made the landscape himself!', suggestion that Macdonald breed trout, description of some of Hook's pictures and a small sketch of a crab catcher, Leighton has a very large processional picture at the moment, Fildes has a large picture called 'The Widower' which he has sold for £1,890, Cameron's picture of two children crossing a brook is very good, Orchardson has three little pictures and a portrait, two good pictures by McWhirter, briefly described, and a good bust of Cottier by Lawson, cold weather, March n.d. |