Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from George Reid, R.S.A., 26 April 1869 Letter dated 26 April 1869 to Macdonald from George Reid, R.S.A., Hotel d'Isly, Rue Jacob 29, Paris, regarding visit with Pinchard to Aubert's studio, 'a very jolly little fellow … Hamm and Aubert are the leaders of the modern classical school', comments on their improvements in terms of colour, description of a 'hazy, dreamy looking picture all painted in delicate gradations of half tint' of a woman, with sketch, description of another picture of two women with a swan that might please Macdonald, Reid's negotiations to cut out the middlemen for him to buy one of Aubert's works. 1869