| Description | Letter dated 30 November 1882 to Macdonald from George Reid, R.S.A., St. Luke's, [Kepplestone, Aberdeen], 'I shewed Mrs. Macdonald's portrait to a visitor this afternoon but got such a torrent of damning criticism that I have abandoned my purpose of exhibiting it in Edinburgh … as he knows absolutely nothing about pictures I could only conclude that he was repeating what he had heard elsewhere … I feel that a prejudice exists against it somehow … I hope you will not be disappointed'. |