| Description | Letter to Hope Macdonald from J.C. Hook, Silverbeck, Churt, Farnham, Surrey, enclosing photographs of his recent Royal Academy work [absent], summer's work in Devon and Cornwall, weather there, progress of garden, effects of frost, memories of Macdonald, plans for working at home, movements of Allan and Bryan, news that Mr. White is to write a Life of Rembrandt, and recommending that he first look at the etchings in the British Museum, rumours about his death, their own visit to Holland in the spring, to Leewarden, the Zuyder See and Harlaam, removal of the Trippenhuis pictures to a better building, girls and children in Leewarden particularly good for painting, health of their Scottish dogs, Mrs. Hook sends her love from Land's End, 26 September 1885 |