| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from George du Maurier, 9 Broomfield Terrace, Whitby, staying there for seven weeks, as wife has been very seriously ill and requires sea air, hoping that arrangements with Millais will not fall through as a consequence, no trip to Scotland this year, description of Whitby - 'not a bad place ... full of fishermen who loll about all day on the quays and would be quite charming if they were not so intolerably addicted to expectoration', July 1878. |