| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from Philip H. Calderon, Weston Lodge, 16, Grove End Road, North West London, explaining that he has wanted to write but has been ill, and has then been catching up with work, accepting his invitation to dinner, hoping that it means that Macdonald is coming to the Academy dinner, asking for more details of London plans, inviting him to lunch, explanation of wheelchair access in their 'cottage', his own self-portrait is not yet begun as he is 'sick of myself and of my face', but Macdonald's visit to London may act as an incentive, glad that Mrs. Macdonald is to come too, he hears that the Academy exhibition will be a good one this year but has seen no pictures, they will enjoy the exhibitions, 'I put it in the plural you see, for by this time all Bond Street is turned into picture galleries', 16 April 1884 |