| Description | Part letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from Dr. John Brown, hoping that Mrs. Macdonald is keeping warm, recommending shamoy [chamois?], comments on Taylor's coverage of Delane in 'Punch', he was probably inferior to Russell, dinner at Dalmeny [House, near South Queensferry, seat of Lord Rosebery] with Lord Rosebery, Gladstone, Wallace of The Scotsman, and Professor Blackie who 'enlivened them all, throwing his arms round the great man's neck and kissing him, and addressing him in ancient and modern Greek', [breaks off] [n.d.] |