| Description | Letter dated to Macdonald from J.C. Horsley, The Athenaeum, [Piccadilly, London], thanking for his 'renewed piscatorial offer' but postponing it until they have visitors due again, enclosing photographs of himself and Walter [not present], asking for Walter's picture back from Mr. Field so that it can be prepared for the Royal Academy exhibition, message to Mr. Field to visit any time he is in London, fond memories of Mr. Field's father, 'There was no one for whom my great brother-in-law and dearest friend Brunel had a greater respect and admiration for than 'Joshua Field'', mention of Walter's picture 'The Hour of Prayer', a Turkish subject, now in the Armstrong Gallery, too large for Macdonald but he will send a photograph of it, hopes of Macdonald visiting London soon, he has not seen Hook's work yet but has seen Millais' landscape which took him two months to paint and which he has sold for 3,000 guineas. |