| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from George du Maurier, New Grove House, Hampstead, London, thanking for the whisky, his wife is a little unwell but the rest of the family are fine, his son Guy is back from Sandhurst and awaits gazetting, du Maurier has written to Lord Wolseley to try to get him into the Royal Fusiliers, in India, Millais' family are to stay with them for Christmas, wishing he could do the portrait for Macdonald but he is not good at portraits and has not lately been painting in oils, 19 December 1884. |