| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from John Everett Millais, 2 Palace Gate, Kensington, 'At last I have a clean studio', and can start something new, reference to Messrs. Brady and Co.: 'I think anything in commemoration of the killers, or the killed, is a mistake, when the living are in want, so I approve of any efforts on behalf of starving Highlanders', anticipation of Macdonald's attendance at the Royal Academy dinner, delighted with the haddock, he has also been sent a salmon from Glen Tanar by W. Cunliffe Brooks, 'Don't bother about my portrait by Reid, it is good enough, he won't better it by fiddling at it again,' but Reid's portrait in the Academy is 'capital', 'I am obliged to whip my old horse on with all these sharp jockeys pushing round me and the only satisfaction they could leave me is that I have taught some of them to ride - confound them!', he might be in Spain before the Academy dinner, 16 April 1883 |