| Description | Letter dated 22 June 1881 to Macdonald from J.S. Hodgson, 5 Hill Road [Abbey Road, N.W. London], regarding a drawing [possibly belonging to Macdonald, on which permission has been sought for publication] on which he was hoping to consult DuMaurier but DuMaurier has not seen it, wondering if it 'expresses unmistakeably the tone of feeling which dictated the premiers speech on the Beaconsfield memorial', but as to publishing it, one has to make allowances for stupidity: 'it is ticklish ground to tread on … if … we ask ourselves whether Gladstone would wish the thing done unto him - we should decide not … I quite feel how useful the publication would be to Sambourne … it would sell like wildfire'. |