| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from G.D. Leslie, Thames Street, Wallingford, Berkshire, announcing that he has finished the self-portrait and will send it soon, he hopes it is satisfactory, 'I have a trick of looking very glum at myself in the glass', he has a high colour because he has been boating for six weeks, looking forward to seeing the whole collection some day, sorry to have been so long over the portrait 'but the find weather has made me more inclined for loafing about out of doors than working within', 12 August 1882 |