| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from Dr. John Brown, 23, Rutland Street, Edinburgh, asking for letters, enjoyed visit from Jamieson, asking about Macdonald's reading, he himself is reading a book by McLeod, but the only decent illustration is one by Millais, 'Millais can make men - and women too, at times - ' asking after Hunt, Tom Taylor, 'I cannot read his plays? Can you?', some improvement in the bank business, he has his widowed daughter staying, 'That cordial, warmhearted ruffian Sam Bough was buried yesterday', 'Buy John Gilpin by Calder … and you'll not regret it', 24 November 1878 |