| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from John Pettie, St. Enoch Station Hotel, Glasgow, on his way to paint a portrait in Dundee but unable to go further north as he then has to go to Corrie, Arran, to paint landscapes, he had just finished building a wooden hut when the call came to Dundee to paint a Mr. Harris 'who has just given the town a lot of money, £30,000, and is to have his own portrait in return! A bad bargain for him, don't you think?', would still like to visit him but there is so much going on at home with his new studio that he may have to return there, 15 August 1881 |