| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from Dr. John Brown, 23, Rutland Street, Edinburgh, regarding improvement in Jamieson's health, he is living in the Caledonian, dinner at Irvine Smith's with Jamieson, Forbes White, Aeneas McKay Gibson, and Walter Smith (of the Free Church), sheep's head with Jamieson and Brown's sister Jane and her husband Rev. Mr. Wilson, Jamieson's other social engagements, hoping to visit the studios of Herdman, Lockhart, Douglas, Hutchison and Paton, he should not, however, go abroad yet, mention of Gladstone's visit to Edinburgh but Brown did not see him, he should have but he cannot be bothered with duty, regards to Reids, particularly mentioning the Queen's order to George, 'Bough's pictures still sell amazingly', 4 December 1879 |