Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from George du Maurier, July 1878 Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from George du Maurier, 9 Broomfield Terrace, Whitby, staying there for seven weeks, as wife has been very seriously ill and requires sea air, hoping that arrangements with Millais will not fall through as a consequence, no trip to Scotland this year, description of Whitby - 'not a bad place ... full of fishermen who loll about all day on the quays and would be quite charming if they were not so intolerably addicted to expectoration', July 1878. July 1878