Autograph letter signed to[Malcolm] Mackenzie.

Wood-engraver, illustrator, painter. Two pages, 4to, with woodcut of house in heading. He has just returned from a caravan "where I have been painting. April showers may bring forth May flowers but the watercolour painter must be very wary. He had heard that he had two paintings at the RA but had missed the varnishing day "on which artists have the opportunity to meet. Several of our R.W.S. numbers are well-represented. Your letter to Mr Carter has already I am glad to hear borne fruit in the 'Daily Mail'. I should be delighted to come over some evening with wife and guitar to help entertain friends from the 'far-flung' empire in some parts of which the sun really does shine." He asks for notice and a date.