| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from John Pettie, 21, St. John's Wood Road, N.W. London, visit from McWhirter who is happy to have sold his pictures to Agnew, he has just seen a picture by Corot belonging to Alexander Strahan, who wishes to sell it at once, publishers are no richer than anyone else, Macdonald's collection is so fine that perhaps this will be its crowning glory, glad that his Orchardson has done so well in Edinburgh, 6 February 1879 |