| Description | Letter dated 5 March 1883 to Macdonald from George Reid, R.S.A., 40 Heriot Row, Edinburgh, thanking for letter and glad that he likes the portraits, comments on difficulty of Sir John Steel's portrait, 'I think you should get Lockhart and MacTaggart to do their heads for the collection. They are both good men', letter from John Forbes White, impressed with Orchardson's London pictures, visit from Reid's mother, 5 March 1883 |