Excerpt from Social and Political Reminiscences
The following account found its way into a paper, and, as it bears upon the subject of my drawings, I give it here During a dinner given recently at the Glasgow Exhibition by Sir C. Cayzer (one of our many kind Scotch friends), one of the lady guests was seen busily plying a pencil, and several persons wondered if a journalist had surreptitiously obtained admission to a private party. All suspicions, however, were soon dispelled when the party left the table, for on the white cover were found two life like portraits - one of mine host, and the other of ex - Bailie Shearer. The artist was Mrs Causton, wife of a Liberal m.p. The sketches were preserved, and suitably mounted and framed, and now ornament the private office of Mr. William m’killop, m.p.
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