| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from Philip H. Calderon, Weston Lodge, 16, Grove End Road, North West London, saying that as soon as he heard Macdonald had left London ill, he himself had done the same, and has since been very busy, he is working on a portrait and on a picture for Aird ('a companion to my figure of "Night" in the Academy'), apologising that he has not yet done his self-portrait, they are going to the country in August, and he hopes he will look better after a little while there, 'Spite of royal deaths, stagnation of trade and obduracy of House of Lords … London is as gay as ever', he finds it tiring and hopes instead to go to Scotland next year, 30 June 1884 |