| Description | Letter dated 14 December 1870 to Macdonald from George Reid, R.S.A., 68 George Street, Edinburgh, regarding delays in returning to Aberdeen, Dr. Stuart's portrait [Dr. John Stuart, 1813 - 1877, one of the founders of the Spalding Club], Dr. Keith's portrait, Israels' sketches and Macdonald's choice of them, Hugh Cameron's sketches of interiors from the Brig o' Turk, visits from Cameron and Chalmers, 'Hutchison has been doing a bust of Peter Reid, the celebrated Forfar Rock man', suggestion that the bust should be cast in striped rock. |