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Letter from Elizabeth Hume-Campbell (Lady Marchmont) to son Alexander Hume-Campbell. Pleased that Alexander's headaches have entirely gone. If it is owing to the air at Geneva, the writer would advise Harry Macdougal to go there; his headaches are so bad that he can hardly stir. He has been bathing in the sea, but to no effect.

7 Aug 1768

From: 1768 To: 1768

Mr Gibson, who built Marchmont House, has died suddenly. 'What is doing about this place of Hume' - there are many inclosures going on, the lime kiln is constantly at work, and the man's house is built. The new road by the Hardings is made, but the wet weather has spoiled it sadly. 'I have had two such severe returns of my hysterics, that I have recourse to my old remedy the cold bath, and go inot our great tub every other day, and in order to make it as near the sea water as I can, we add a large quantity of salt into the water. Went to Mertoun [Mertoun House, home of Diana Scott, nee Hume-Campbell, half sister of Alexander]. Mr [Walter] Scott seems resolved to put his son [Hugh Hepburne-Scott, later 6th Lord Polwarth] into a school in England next spring. 'Your Papa has made a purchase this week of a small estate that lies next to this called Tofts.' Are to go to the laying of the foundation of a new market cross on the green at Greenlaw.

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Hume-Campbell, Elizabeth,
Crompton, Elizabeth,
Marchmont,
Hume-Campbell, Alexander (1st Baron Hume of Berwick),
Macdougal, Harry,
Gibson,
Scott, Diana,
Scott, Walter,
Hepburne-Scott, Hugh

family correspondence, CORRESPONDENCE, Geneva, DEATH, weather, illness, market crosses