| Description | Letter to Hope Macdonald from George Reid, 22, Royal Terrace, Edinburgh, explaining that Lawson overrates his influence but he has in any case written to the 'Alexander Memorial Committee', mention of their recent holiday to Durham, Richmond, York, Beverley, Selby, Lincoln, Peterborough, Ely, Cambridge, Norwich, Bury St. Edmunds and London, meetings with Davis, Calderon, P. Graham, Hook, Millais, etc., Academy dinner and Millais' speech, 'it is a great pity about his voice', Sir Frederick Leighton is very ill, 'How quickly men seem to get 'used up' now-a-days. I suppose it comes from the high pressure rate at which we live!', 8 May 1895 |