| Description | Written from 107 Corso, 3o Piano, Rome, dated 27 January. Alma-Tadema thanks Hipkins [1826-1903, writer on musical instruments] for sending congratulations on his election as an A.R.A. He writes: 'I consider this step of the RAs a great event in my life. I feel officialy [sic] employed as an Englishman and am proud of it'. |