| Description | Letter dated 3 September 1877 to Macdonald from J.C. Hook, R.A., Silverbeck, Churt, Farnham, [Surrey], thanking for payment for 'Milkmaid of the Maas' and background to painting, brass milk cans in Holland, work on the Gulf of Spezia, 'Rose will have to see to the Polenta tho she too is taking with her some water colors'. |