| Description | Letter dated 7 August 1883 to Macdonald from George Reid, R.S.A., 20 Duke Street, Edinburgh, regarding kind remark by Millais published in the papers, meeting with McWhirter who is to paint Cape Wrath, making sketches for book around Tweedside, more work on paintings of Lord Breadalbane and Sir W. Anstruther, unable at present to come north to meet Onless, Gibson and Professor Chrystall are going to the Tyrol, Dr. and Mrs. Smiles are off to Loch Awe, another portrait of Sir John Anderson, 'this time for the Woodside people', though he was unwell. |