| Description | Letter to Macdonald from Effie Millais, Bowerswell, Perth, thanking him for a sum of money apparently towards a cross, and doing something for 'poor John Brown', thanks for hospitality, mention of a social engagement of her mother's, Millais fed up with pictures but is going to dine with Gladstone 'to meet the new Archbishop', unable to sleep and thinking of Macdonald's portrait gallery, and will send him a few names of younger artists (on reverse: Holman Hunt, Val Prinsep, Frank Miles, John Collier, Dicksee, J. Forbes Robertson, Perugini, Pellegrini, Leslie Ward, Sir Cantes Lindsay, Charles Halle, Archie Stuart Wortley, Young, and A. Cope, and Thornycroft 'sculptor, first rate man'), 13 April [c.1880] |