| Description | Letter dated 13 March 1873 to Macdonald from Rosalie Hook, Silverbeck, Churt, Farnham, [Surrey], with thanks for offer of cormorant - declined, as Captain Salvin has given them two dead cormorants, and comments on Hobble Gobble, a cormorant who sat for J.C. Hook: '…was a tolerably patient sitter but a troublesome guest as he insisted on fish diet without a particle of salt on it & I had to drive to Farnham for his dinner', remarks on Mrs. Macdonald's tending to a sick uncle: 'after the novelty is over nothing can be more melancholy than a stay in one of those healthseeking towns of the south where more than half of the visitors are doomed to banishment and suffering'. |