| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from Philip H. Calderon, Weston Lodge, 16, Grove End Road, North West London, regarding persuading Marks to add his self-portrait to Macdonald's collection, though he is at present working on a very large painting of the Lord Mayor of London for the Royal Academy, his small painting 'A fugitive thought' is finished and the best thing he has done, arranging to paint Riviere who is too shy to paint himself, glad to hear that Macdonald no longer needs to see Sir Henry Thompson, he himself has been seedy but is improving now, dinner at John Aird's, 25 January 1882 |