| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from George du Maurier, New Grove House, Hampstead, London, sorry not to have replied before but he has been busy with work and with his daughter's approaching wedding, he will have a Bond Street catalogue sent to Macdonald tomorrow, intention of a rest at Shanklin after the wedding, he will not have time to do a portrait for Macdonald, difficulties in painting a two year old boy of the Baring family, 'the dear little cuss cannot be persuaded to sit still an instant', 27 July 1884. |