Selected Images of the Correspondence

• Letter to Joseph Noel Paton, 19 August 1852
  Hill cannot decide where to go on a sketching holiday and is pulled in four directions by winged horses, while a powerful magnet draws him towards Arden[craig] where Paton was staying.
  National Library of Scotland, Acc 11315
• Letter from Hill to his first wife, Ann, 19 October 1840
  Written during a painting trip to Ireland. The sketch is of Kenmure Bridge, Co. Kerry.
  National Library of Scotland, Acc 11782
• Letter to Joseph Noel Paton, 19 November 1851
  Verses celebrating the engagement of Hill's niece Sarah Watson to the Revd Thomas Gardiner [sic].
  National Library of Scotland, Acc 11315
• Invitation to a party for Hill's daughter Charlotte, 29 February [1856]
  (from a glass negative in Glasgow University Library)
• Letter to Charlotte Hill, 9 April 1850, as from her cat.
  (from a glass negative in Glasgow University Library)
  Further pages from this letter.
• Letter to Joseph Noel Paton
  Salutation in the form of a rebus: deer/pot/on ('Dear Paton').
  National Library of Scotland, Acc 11315
• New Year's greeting
  (from a glass negative in Glasgow University Library)
• Invitation to breakfast on New Year's Day 1852
  (from a glass negative in Glasgow University Library)