Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from Dr. John Brown, [c.1879] Part letter to Mrs. Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from Dr. John Brown, 23, Rutland Street, Edinburgh [beginning missing], remarks on Alick's letters, which 'might have been written by Swift', his brother Alex has run off with a granite weight, sensible of Mrs. Macdonald to resume piano-playing, the solace of music, list of composers she might play, including 'the wicked but strangely affecting Lucretzia', reference to a 'dear little woman', a painting in an exhibition, confusion of Sam Bough's affairs, 'he was a strangely gifted ruffian', Irvine Smith has a lovely painting by Chalmers of a little girl, a cousin of George Reid, 'I like to see them now and then, but would not like to live with them', [breaks off], [c. 1879] c.1879