| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from Philip H. Calderon, Weston Lodge, 16, Grove End Road, North West London, wishing them a merry Christmas, and better health for Macdonald, wondering if there is anyone else to be included in the portrait gallery, thanking for the venison, good wishes to Reid if he is back from his honeymoon, busy when there is light to paint by, two more pictures will go to John Aird tomorrow, visit to Riviere for billiards, he is shy of showing his pictures until they are finished, the official dinners at the Royal Academy are to begin soon 'with jolly little skirmishes at each other', Aberdeen people seem to be in the papers, 'trials of naval captains!', looking forward to seeing Macdonald in the spring, 22 December 1882 |