| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from John Pettie, 21, St. John's Wood Road, N.W. London, after visit to the first of the Royal Academy varnishing days, with brief account of pictures by George Reid, Colin Hunter, McWhirter and C.E. Johnson, Lawson, Farquharson, Millais, Hook, Orchardson, Cameron and his own, Chalmers and McTaggart have not sent in pictures, 26 April 1877 |