| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from George du Maurier, Whitby, thanking for Dr. Brown's book, particularly article on John Leech, with whom he spent time in Whitby in 1864, a month before Leech's death, 'the most loveable man I ever met', he has studied his work closely, he himself would not have appreciated praise without criticism, too, particularly involving the disparagement of others, however, he would not have liked his dress described as 'Shakespearian', account of his funeral, where Millais burst into tears, 'It seemed worth dying at 47 to be so pathetically mourned', chance meeting later with Leech's friend who had taken the funeral at a church near Newark, hopes to write, when he is older and wiser, monographs on the subjects of dead contemporaries such as Leech and F. Walker 'and if he predeceases me (before I am idiotic) C. Keene ... as for J.E.M. [Millais], he'll take precious good care not to give me a chance', good letter from Millais, half of it in verse, 6 August 1882. |