| Description | Letter dated 6 December 1878 to Macdonald from Charles S. Keene, 11 Queen's Road West, Chelsea, apologising for having been too busy to write, mention of Tom Taylor's northern trip, 'I don't see very much of the Punch people. I'm a rank Tory of strong English proclivities and they are a set of Russo-Affghan Gladstonmen!', worries over shares, 'I was a good deal exercised at the Whistler business and am 'thorough' on his side, was very nearly being subpoena'd but begged him to let me off. With all his faults and he has plenty he is an Artist 'all round' and that that venomous beast should be allowed to call him an impostor seems to me a gross injustice.' 'Art is under a cloud just now - nothing is selling - Herkomer is laid up with brain fever, and Holman Hunt is down with Typhoid', 'The conservatives of Newcastle with Crawhall in the Van are making a heady fight with the moneygrubbing Rads of the City who are for pulling down the last old Watchtower on the walls, because it would be a cheap site for the new Library!', comments on domestic situation of late G. Lewes. |