Letter book

• Reference:GB 1716 RSA1/8/1/2/2
• Dates of Creation:1837

• Scope and Content

  RSA Letters Book 1837 Exhibition. Volume of letters accompanying pictures sent in for exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy, addressed to D.O. Hill as secretary

  Writers include:

  John Watson Gordon

  William Dyce, relating to his picture 'Francesca da Rimini'

  Sir Daniel Macnee

  Thomas MacCulloch

  Sir Daniel Macnee, explaining that his rheumatism and sore eyes prevented him from getting on with a picture, but he has now brought it to 'a short finish', 31 Jan.

  Handwritten letters in pen and ink, tipped into brown sugar paper pages, bound in green marbled papered boards, with green faux leather spine with gilt lettering on the spine.

• Note

  NRAS1464/18