L30/11/153/2a&b

Copy of Hugh Campbell, Earl Marchmont's reply to L30/11/153/1

22 May 1781

From: 1781 To: 1781

It is so long since Lord Polwarth discarded me as his father, that your ladyship very naturally employs other arguments to induce me to involve myself in his affairs. While there remained any hopes of his recovering proper sentiments, I not only advanced money beyond and without regard to the terms of his annuity; but I paid £500 to procure him that assistance which your ladyship thought necessary; and bound myself to pay Mr Robertson for his life the annuity of £150 that Lord P had engaged, it seems, to pay. His undutiful behaviour to me was soon after inflamed to open hostility and insult, and his being from this time known to be dead to me was no doubt the reason that no notice was given even to his mother of his immediate danger of dying to all the rest of the world, except what the humanity of Dr Fordyce prompted him to give to prepare her for the event that quickly followed, altho' long past to me. But this time of his death did not hinder my burying him as my son... If the honour of my name be yet to be lost, it is certainly not to be taken from me by those whose efforts have been already so industriously employed to sully it and whom I shall not gratify by meddling in Lord Polwarth's affairs.

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Polwarth,
Hume-Campbell, Alexander,
Robertson,
Fordyce,
Hume-Campbell, Amabel, 1st Countess de Grey, 5th Baroness Lucas,
Hume-Campbell, Hugh (3rd Earl of Marchmont)

CORRESPONDENCE, DEATH, annuities, money, doctor