| Description | Letter dated v to Macdonald from George Reid, R.S.A., Lavender Sweep, Wandsworth, [London], regarding the hanging of his portrait at the Royal Academy, hanging of Reid's other two portraits, remarks on the head of Gladstone by Millais, comments on paintings by Pettie, Orchardson, Hook, and MacWhirter, visit to Millais for lunch, 'He was as kind and jolly as could be', he is painting one of his own children, spending time with the etcher Rajan, awkward staying so far out of London as Wandsworth, remarks on Whistler and his debts and the trial, no intention of visiting Silverbeck [home of J.C. Hook]. |