L30/12/35/36

Letter from Elizabeth Hume-Campbell (Lady Marchmont) to son Alexander Hume-Campbell, Lord Polwarth. Comments about the weather and harvest.

28 Aug 1768

From: 1768 To: 1768

Visitors and social events. Mrs Burnett is still staying; Mr Burnett is still at Newfoundland - he expects to be home in December. Mr Cockburn's wife has brought him another daughter; they now have 8 children alive. Mention of horse races at Kelso - Sir John Paterson runs his horse against Mr Dicksons.

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Hume-Campbell, Elizabeth,
Crompton, Elizabeth,
Marchmont,
Hume-Campbell, Alexander (1st Baron Hume of Berwick),
Paterson, John,
Burnett,
Cockburn,
Dickson

family correspondence, CORRESPONDENCE, horse racing, horses, weather, harvesting, childbirth, Kelso, Newfoundland & Labrador