| Description | Letter to Hope Macdonald from J.C. Hook, Silverbeck, Churt, Farnham, Surrey, regarding Arthur Cope, son of a deceased member of the Royal Academy, who has set up an art school with John Nichol in Kensington, Calderon also runs art classes in St. John's Wood, either might do for Sheriff Dove Wilson's daughter, reference to a picture of the 'Silver City' of Aberdeen, he is painting portraits of both his sons, hoping she will like the canvases he began in Banffshire, planting trees, warm weather, filberts in bloom, snowdrops and primroses out, thrushes singing, 8 February 1896 |