| Description | Letter dated 23 April 1880 to Macdonald from J.C. Horsley, 1, High Row, Kensington, West London, alone with the decorators while his wife and daughters are holidaying and Walter is working in Brighton, asking for forgiveness for Walter's failure to write, 'he emphatically has not the pen of a ready writer, and abhors the process', delighted that Macdonald will be coming to the Academy dinner again this year, asking for Mrs. Macdonald's address so that he can call on her in lieu of his wife. |