| Description | Letter dated 28 July 1877 to Macdonald from J.C. Hook, R.A., Silverbeck, Churt, Farnham, [Surrey], with comments on the golden sunshine in the garden, 'I must take lots of cadmium with me to Venice', plans to return north and requests to Macdonald not to mention the places he intends to paint to anyone else, 'Faed … and some others of us are out o' temper with the fine art commissioners & H.R.H. their President who have been appraising the lot of us which they are about as capable of doing as my collie dog'. |