| Description | Letter to Hope Macdonald from Eyre Crowe, Royal Hotel, Dundee, thanking her for her Christmas greetings, he spent Christmas and some time at Gerome's house, Gerome intended to write to her but Crowe did not manage to, Gerome's only son was dying at Cannes from phthysis, Gerome is working on a statue of Bellona, 'a terribly a propos theme, when we think of his bellicose fatherland', he intends the limbs and head to be in ivory, which he has ready, the rest in bronze, weather there, bad fogs in London, regards to Mr. Reid [Archie?], he is carrying out inspections in Dundee and will then go south again, hoping to call on Reid's brother [George?] in Edinburgh, regards to her sisters, 28 February 1891 |