| Description | Letter to Mrs. Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from Dr. John Brown, 23, Rutland Street, Edinburgh, thanking her for her letter and the photograph [absent], appreciation of the photograph from which his sister-in-law Jane straight away picked out 'Mr. Greathead' [Macdonald], hoping that she is feeling better after her cold, hoping that her mother and uncle are better, mention of his brother-in-law Mr. Wilson, minister at Newabbey, being in Aberdeen to lecture to the Erastian students, he will probably stay with Professor Milligan [William Milligan, 1821 - 1893] but Brown will ask him to go out to Kepplestone, he is an art lover, anecdote about a minister and a shoemaker, 9 December 1878 |