| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from [?] Watson, 20, Queen's Gate, S.W. London, apologising for not having written sooner, sorry to have missed his departure for Aberdeen in May, worried by his work, he is working on the law of Oude [Oudh] 'which is a strange strange hybrid - begotten of Hindu, Mahommedan and English jurisprudence', the weather is much more suited to 'idleness and American drinks', thanks for the catalogue of Macdonald's collection of artists' portraits, joke referring to current Bradlaigh case, his wife and family are in Dumfries, and he hopes to join them later in the summer, 'should I pick up any fun, in this city of thick-witted John Bulls, I will communicate it to you', 30 June 1884 |