| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from John Everett Millais, Birnam Hall, Birnam, North Britain, thanks for haddock, good visit to Hawarden but the G.O.M. did not offer to make him a Duke, 'so I must look to the coming Republic to recognise my great claims', rudeness of a French artist and recommendation that Macdonald does not approach him, 19 October 1884 |