| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from Philip H. Calderon, Weston Lodge, 16, Grove End Road, North West London, announcing safe arrival of portrait [painted by George Reid and on loan from Macdonald] which his children think is very like him, as soon as the 'clan' [of other artists] have seen it, it will be returned, glad that 'jolly Millais' visited Macdonald, he has written Calderon a letter all in verse, to which he has been unable to respond in kind, 'Hard at work here - six pictures on the easel - enjoying myself all day long', 24 October 1881 |