| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from Dr. John Brown, 23, Rutland Street, Edinburgh, glad that Macdonald is a bit better 'though I daresay still obliged to know you have a bladder', glad that Watts' is a fine portrait, 'he is a great master as few now are, a man of great power and genius though in wife business I suspect like Ruskin and Carlyle his virilities lay more in his brain than where they generally do', admiration of cartoons by Sambourne and Du Maurier, he has not been to the Royal Scottish Academy exhibition, he now appreciates more his bed, his pipe, and a speech by Gladstone, Noel Paton will not make a good president, 'a little too much of a swell', he knew the Beef joke [in Punch] was Macdonald's, John Ingle's novel is a little too didactic, 'What of Mrs. Langtry?', 1 March 1882 |