| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from Dr. John Brown, 23, Rutland Street, Edinburgh, addressed to 'My dear Mr. Greathead', reporting that Alex and his wife were delighted with their visit to Kepplestone, they were also delighted with the Hooks, hopes that Mrs. Macdonald will now have a rest, movements of George Barclay and his family, his own travels to Stirling, Aberfoyle and Busby, his own ill health, asking for Jamieson, 'I am seeing a real genius today - a thing not seen every day - a quiet, douce (in its double sense) plainish girl of 20, daughter of Hope and Fenton Barns, a [?] natural daughter of Paul Chalmers, and a girl Raeburn. She painted 'The Squire's Daughter' in last year's Exhibition, which was sold, I think, the first day', wants a book to read, the granite cross in memory of Dean Ramsay is too white, 'it was stupid in them going so far and fareing so ill', regards to George and Archie Reid, 18 October 1879 |