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Letter from Elizabeth Hume-Campbell (Lady Marchmont) to son Alexander Hume-Campbell, Lord Polwarth. Hopes Mr. Tissot's direstions will have a good effect. Writer has seen a lady who saw Alexander in Geneva. Her name was then Lockhart, but she has since married Mr Miller, a justice clerk of Scotland.

3 Apr 1769

From: 1769 To: 1769

I was mistaken in Lord Irnham's opposing Mr Wilkes. [Refers to Simon Luttrell, Baron Irnham, later 1st Earl of Carhampton]. It is Col. Luttrell, his son Henry Lawes Luttrell, later 2nd Earl of Carhampton] Mrs Pratt has died of consumption, leaving three children. Took Miss Bland to a play on Saturday. Hears that the English in Geneva have set up a hunt; the writer thinks they might employ their time to more purpose. Lady Boston [Albinia Irby, nee Selwyn] has died after two days illness, from a bad sort of sore throat. 'In this kind of sore throat, bleeding is certain death, so I beg if you ever have anything of that sort, you will on no account be bloodied, but use a gargle of sage tea, honey, ginger and red wine.' 'My Father [Windmill Crompton] thinks his face is greatly mended.

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Hume-Campbell, Elizabeth,
Crompton, Elizabeth,
Marchmont,
Crompton,
Lockhart,
Miller,
Pratt,
Wilkes, John,
Luttrell, Simon, 1st Earl of Carhampton,
Luttrell, Henry Lawes, 2nd Earl of Carhampton,
Bland,
Irby, Albinia,
Crompton, Windmill

family correspondence, CORRESPONDENCE, DEATH, consumption, illness, honey, tea, wine, Geneva, hunting