| Description | Letter to Hope Macdonald from George Reid, 17, Carlton Terrace, Edinburgh, sorry to hear that she has not been well, the worst winter he can remember for a while, too dark to paint, writing letters by gaslight, colds in the household, darkness will delay pictures for the Royal Scottish Academy, including his full-length portrait of Lord Stair, he is painting a landscape of St. Mary's Loch, lunch with Robertson Smith [Professor William Robertson Smith, 1846 - 1894], who was not looking well, and misses Gibson, deaths of old friends and shrinking circle, Millais still in Perth, painting landscapes which no one has been allowed to see, letter from Israels asking if the weather here was as bad as in The Hague, 5 January 1888 [?] |