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Letter from Elizabeth Hume-Campbell (Lady Marchmont) to son Alexander Hume-Campbell, Lord Polwarth. Gives details of various visitors. Went to Hume on Friday.

21 Aug 1768

From: 1768 To: 1768

'Your Papa is building several new farm houses in the moor, and has inclosed the craigs with a stone wall for a sheep park.' Went to Greenlaw to see the [market] cross, which is finished except for the 'lyon' on the top. Sir John [Paterson] talks of going to Bath next winter. The writer hopes to persuade them to spend the summer at Brighthelmstone, as the sea would be of great use to Lady Anne, who is plagued with headaches. Comments about dog Jett and her puppies. Received a letter from Mrs Bailey at Tring; she and two of her daughters are to be inoculated as soon as the weather is cooler.

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Hume-Campbell, Elizabeth,
Crompton, Elizabeth,
Marchmont,
Hume-Campbell, Hugh (3rd Earl of Marchmont),
Paterson, Anne,
Paterson, John,
Bailey,
Hume-Campbell, Alexander (1st Baron Hume of Berwick)

family correspondence, CORRESPONDENCE, market crosses, weather, Greenlaw, Bath, Tring, inoculation