Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from Dr. John Brown, 23, Rutland Street, Edinburgh, thanking him for a vase, as good as Phidias would have made it, except for the 'narrow toppleoverish base', he has just returned from Oban with his 'thorn in the flesh', they have seen Glenelg, the Cuillins and Rhum and Eigg, visits to Dalwhinnie and Spean Bridge where everyone fell in love with Walter Smith's daughter, and to Lochiel, Glen Finnan, Glen Eylort and Arisaig, 3 September 1881 |