Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    L30/12/35/3
  • Title
    Letters from Hugh Hume-Campbell (Lord Marchmont) and Elizabeth Hume Campbell, to son Alexander Hume-Campbell [on same sheet]. Sent from Marchmont House. Letters sent and received. 'I am very glad you have left so silly a place as that you tried and mention.' [Lausanne].
  • Date free text
    2 May 1768
  • Production date
    From: 1768 To: 1768
  • Scope and Content
    Lord & Lady Stanhope are at Geneva. 'I desire you will take an opportunity of thanking them for their kind attentions to you. Endeavour to deserve their approbation by making sure of your own.' 'If you do exert yourself you may make yourself what I wish you to be.' General comments and philosophies relating to law, governemt etc. for example 'Where a person is not secured that the fruit of his industry is to be his, all the powers within human reach will never produce cheerful labour or spontaneous industry. And indeed it is perverting all notions of government to attempt to deprive men of this, since it is one of those natural rights to secure the enjoymeny of ehich men submit themselves to be governed.' From Lady Marchmont: Saw Lord & Lady Haddington in Edinburgh. Spent 3 days with the Miss Carres. Lady Diana [Scott] is very well, and nephew and niece much grown. Brought Miss Don from Edinburgh, and Lady Don has just now fetched her home. Considers that the watch making business at Geneva seems to bear no proportion to the number of the inhabitants -they must surely be very cheap where so many people are employed in making them. Mention of Mr Willis at Lausanne. '...the young men there [Lausanne] must be the stupidest race of creatures upon the face of the earth, to prefer playing at whist to walking or riding.' 'Your Papa has made Miss Don a present of the little mare.'
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