| Description | Letter dated c.1869 from Macdonald to George Reid, R.S.A., Edinburgh, regarding oddly-mixed party at [Professor John Stuart] Blackie's, attended by Dr. Stirling who had just failed to be appointed Professor of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh, Keith Johnston, geographer, Professor Goodsir, an Inspector of Lunacy named Mitchell, Douglas, secretary of the Royal Scottish Academy, and two Free Church ministers, descriptions and sketches of three paintings in Douglas' studio from which Macdonald is to choose, in addition he had recommended Macdonald to Douglas as the man to find a piece of granite for Douglas' father's grave, intention of visiting Dr. Joseph Bell, rumour that Peter Graham is made A.R.A., n.d. (Wednesday evening). |