| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from E. Armitage, 3, Hall Road, St. John's Wood, London, regarding his journey from Barrow to Ryde, his stay in Inverness, and journey to Oban, Staffa and Iona, journey from Oban to the Isle of Man, stay in Westmoreland but weather too bad for mountaineering, agreeing to paint his self-portrait for Macdonald 'at once while I look tanned and healthy', 'Would you object to a sou'wester on my head and dirty-looking weather as a background?', it would lend itself to 'more picturesque treatment', asking for more details on the dimensions of the portraits, and querying the idea of oval portraits, intention of writing to Col. Allardyce [probably James Allardyce, LL.D. Aberdeen University 1895, antiquary] 'enclosing the jointed instructions for collecting beetles', 12 September 1882 |