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Reference NoDD391/13/5/91
TitleLetter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from George Reid, R.S.A., 11 February 1882
DescriptionLetter dated 11 February 1882 to Macdonald from George Reid, R.S.A., 38 North Castle Street, Edinburgh, returning Watts' letter and commenting on Macdonald's progress with his portraits, 'You must leave them all to the nation or to the Aberdeen museum at the least!', hopes to do Noel Paton for him, glad he is on the mend, doing a small sketch of P.G. Tait, commissioned by William Robertson Smith and others for Mrs. Tait, dinner at J.R. Findlay's, and reflection that Sir Daniel had been there the last time but was now dead, Thoms the sheriff was there and asking after Macdonald, 'Douglas - I think - will come all right if they don't badger him on the subject', dinner at Irvine Smith's, with Cameron Lees of St. Giles', Robertson Smith, Darling, Montgomery Bell, Mackintosh the procurator, Dr. Arthur Mitchell, Dr. Donaldson, and others, visit to Innerleithen [Peeblesshire] to do sketches of Traquair House and elsewhere, 'a queer old forlorn place … It was pitiful to see the dead salmon lying all about the bottom of the Tweed, the Keepers fishing them out and burying them', '[William Robertson Smith] is better than ever … It was a good move securing him a seat in the assembly by making him an elder in Walter Smith's. The enemy saw what it meant and didn't quite like it.', remarks on painting P.G. Tait and T.G. Murray, Hutchison should do a bust of Lord Muir, he has already done one of 'Johnnie', mention of a Miss Neaves [?] who had visited St. Luke's with Mrs. Irvine of Drum, Nicolson's increasing girth.
Date1882
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