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  <dc:title>Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from John Forbes White, n.d. [1871?] </dc:title>
  <dc:description>Letter dated c.1871 to Macdonald from John Forbes White, London, describing his visit to Mr. Watts, description of a figure of Daphne by him: 'It is pure as the light of Heaven - He will not send it to the Academy', difficulties of doing business with him although they were friendly: 'it was impossible to drag in prices during our talk … my own impression is that you will get very little for your money', descriptions of him: 'he looks a morbid man …He is a man full of strange allegorical ideas', appreciation of exhibition of old masters at the Academy, particularly two landscapes by Rembrandt, but poor French gallery, visit to the Kensington Museum.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>c.1871</dc:date>
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