| Description | Letter dated 27 February 1874 to Macdonald from J.C. Hook, R.A., Silverbeck, Churt, Farnham, [Surrey], with description of his painting 'Jetsam and Flotsam', another painting, also described, 'A Yorkshireman has this picture who told me last year "noo mind a wunt a wee bit fish" and after he had seen the pictures as he was going away told Allan "go you an paint like Father, Father puts weft in his pictures."', description of 'The Kelp Burners' which the Yorkshireman also has, sketch of yet another painting, suggestion that Macdonald might purchase a painting by Allan, remarks on Pettie and on George Reid painting whins - 'very difficult'. |