| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from Philip H. Calderon, Weston Lodge, 16, Grove End Road, North West London, announcing that his framemaker has just packed the portrait and it is ready to go north, hopes that it will arrive safely, visit from Pettie, who was pleased with it, as was Riviere, hopes to visit Pettie tomorrow and see his portrait, he has had to 'wrestle in spirit' over it, meeting of the Etching Club at Hodgson's, Hook and Millais there, 'all subjects on earth discussed (except Etching)', compliments to George Reid, tactics for flattering wives of portrait subjects, 15 November 1881 |