Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from J.C. Hook, R.A. Letter dated 11 August 1878 to Macdonald from J.C. Hook, R.A., The Gordon Arms, Fochabers, regarding a recommendation to paint at Westhaven, north of Arbroath 'He rather frightened me by saying there was a good Hotel there this sounds 'genteel' and as if the brats ran about with clean pinafores - we poor Painters must make haste every thing is getting so much varnished up there wont be a single picturesque ragamuffin left soon'. 1878