| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from John Pettie, 21, St. John's Wood Road, N.W. London, thanking for note, very busy, Mrs. Macdonald will be enjoying the rest from visitors, happy memories of their visit, he is sending photographs of some of his pictures as requested for the Doctor, allusion to illness of Mrs. White, discussing Macdonald with Hook, seeing Orchardson, mention of etching which are good except those of Pettie's work, regards to both George and Archie Reid, Dr. Urquhart is to marry Miss R., Miss Williams is married, a grand affair, enclosing cards from his friend Watt, whose portrait he has painted, in the hope that someone might be able to help him in business, which appears to involve being agent for various periodicals, 1 December 1879 |