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Letter from Elizabeth Hume-Campbell (Lady Marchmont) to son Alexander Hume-Campbell. Mentions deafness of husband Hugh. Writer has not been well lately, and is now going into the cold bath 'and find it agrees very well with me.'

24 Jul 1768

From: 1768 To: 1768

Weather has been wet. Annie Paterson's leg is mending. Fetched Mrs Burnet from Purves Hall on Wednesday. She looks much better for her 'goat whey expedition.' Mentions other visitors. 'Our poor minister is rather better today, but not yet out of danger....he has a dreadful putrid fever; I have been in great concern for him; he has five children and his wife big with child, and who if he should die, would be in a very melancholy situation indeed.' Comments about a ball at Berkhamstead, attend by the writer's father. Lord Deskford, Lord Findlater's son, has been dying of a fever; they hope he is now put of danger. 'Old Col. Hodges is dead, so we expect that the match so long talked of will now take place at last.

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Hume-Campbell, Elizabeth,
Crompton, Elizabeth,
Marchmont,
Hume-Campbell, Hugh (3rd Earl of Marchmont),
Paterson, Anne,
Burnet,
Ogilvy, James, 6th Earl of Findlater,
Ogilvy, James, 7th Earl of Findlater,
Hodges,
Hume-Campbell, Alexander (1st Baron Hume of Berwick)

family correspondence, CORRESPONDENCE, illness, deafness, weather, fever, balls, DEATH