L30/12/35/107

Letters from Hugh Hume-Campbell (Lord Marchmont) and Elizabeth Hume Campbell, to son Alexander Hume-Campbell [on same sheet]. Sent from Hemel Hempstead to Gottingen. 'As the same use may be made of the feudal law as of the institutes in the forming of your mind, the loss of the college on them is not essential.'

5 Nov 1769

From: 1769 To: 1769

'In every civil law therefore you are to run up from the manners, opinions and ways of thinking of the people, to the ultimate principle of justice; and from theses principles down again to the customs, form of governemnt and ways of acting and thinking of the people.' 'I observe some hours vacant in your scheme...but as you say nothing of dancing and fencing, I wish some hours to be allotted to them.' Elizabeth writes how pleased friends are to receive letters from Alexander. Details of visits paid. 'Lord Eglington has lost his life by a very foolish accident [Alexander Montgomerie, 10th Earl of Eglinton]. He went to take away a gun from a man who he found shooting upon his ground, and the gun went off and shot his Lordship. Whether the gun went off by accident, or that the man was provoked and shot him designedly, we have not yet heard.' [See also L30/9/17/135]. General news of family and friends.

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Hume-Campbell, Hugh,
Marchmont,
Hume-Campbell, Alexander,
Hume-Campbell, Hugh (3rd Earl of Marchmont),
Hume-Campbell, Elizabeth,
Crompton, Elizabeth,
Montgomerie, Alexander, 10th Earl of Eglinton

family correspondence, EDUCATION, law, Hemel Hempstead, dancing, sport fencing, accidents, shooting, guns, DEATH