| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from E. Armitage, 3, Hall Road, St. John's Wood, London, thanking for plants which have arrived safely, looking forward to seeing Macdonald at the Royal Academy dinner, offering accommodation to Mrs. Macdonald if she comes, publication of his lectures, 'I may expect very shortly to be pitched into by the critics not only for my painting but for my writing. However I am very pachydermatious', 29 March 1883 |