| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from J. MacWhirter, 1, Titchfield Road, Regents Park, London, just returned from Hastings where he has been sketching with Pettie, Pettie has been working on the background of a painting for Macdonald, thanks for the cheque for 'The Last of the Forrests', an original picture which cost a little more than a replica of MacWhirter's Academy picture but is more satisfying, discussion of collectors selling or exchanging their paintings, if a man has bought a picture he is entitled to do as he likes with it, Graham disagrees with this according to what he said at Tom Faed's, no one there seemed to agree with Graham, Dr. Jamieson from Aberdeen was present, n.d. [May 1871] |