| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from Edgar Barclay, Studio, 49, Via Margritta, Rome, thanking Macdonald for his trouble in trying to sell Barclay's pictures, sorry that his pictures did not appeal to the customer Macdonald had in mind, he agrees however to reduce the price of the 'Dairy Farm' picture for Mr. Ogston [one of the Ogston and Tennant soap family, related to Sir Alexander Ogston, surgeon], his 'boy and kid' picture is unpopular, as Macdonald will have realised, he finds it hard to judge public opinion and sometimes paintings of which he thinks little sell well for him, however, he still does not feel he can ask less for the 'boy and kid', sorry to be taking up space in Macdonald's house, 7 November 1874 |