| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from John Pettie, The Lothians, Fitzjohn's Avenue, South Hampstead, London, writing on behalf of his brother-in-law C.E. Johnson '(who by the bye was not elected the other night!)', and his nephew William Johnson, who wants a position in some London merchant house, 'He is a likely youth without vice and very steady', visit to Hook's to paint landscape, description of the painting for which it is required, 'Hook was so good, cut down two trees for me and send me up to London with a forest on the top of my cab', conversation with Hook about Macdonald and about the painting with which he is to pay Millais for his portrait, benefit of new paintings being sent to the Royal Scottish Academy, 'Sunday', [February 1884] |