| Description | Part letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from Dr. John Brown, 23, Rutland Street, Edinburgh [beginning missing], reference to Dr. Jamieson and his new wife, reference to letter from Mrs. Macdonald, remarks on James Nasmyth and how George will like him, he is a little tired of Smiles, 'what Sydney Smith would have called extraordinary ordinary man', meeting with Lyon Playfair, anecdote of Lord Beaconsfield, who, with the Lord Chancellor and Lord Salisbury is a 'Homaeopathist', Brown intended to give Macdonald a critique of the exhibition but he is tired, [n.d.] |