| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from E. Armitage, 3, Hall Road, St. John's Wood, London, delighted with Sambourne's version of Macdonald and his wife on their Christmas card, variable weather in London, comments on the Belt case, a court case concerning a 'second rate bust' in which interest in the artist is less intense than that in the differences between artistic opinion and that of the court, mention of the Rosettis at the Royal Academy, his own visit to the galleries and what he saw, he regards the room of Rosetti's works as 'a chamber of horrors', 'I am glad that at last people will be able to judge of Rosetti for themselves, but regret that the R.A. should be instrumental in the process of instruction', none of the members liked the pictures, 'according to Baron Huddlestone our admitting them proves that we admire them', 30 December 1882 |