| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from Effie Millais, Cotton House, Marlborough, busy arranging parties, thanks for haddock, photograph taken of her mother, herself and her daughter and grandson, arranged by Captain James, 'the baby is quite a beauty and absurdly like the Lord Justice', her son Jack has made an etching of Lord Beaconsfield from his father's picture, he is here sharing a study with young Du Maurier, reading an interesting article on Professor W. Smith [probably William Robertson Smith, Hebraicist], Macdonald's wise words on Gladstone and Disraeli's death, but he is not as ill as people think, success of Millais' picture of Tennyson, bought by Mr. Knowles, editor of the 19th Century Review, hoping to visit Aberdeen again, visit from a lady who is to teach but is probably not fit, her brother is a doctor and should look after her, 19 May 1881 |