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Letter from Elizabeth Hume Campbell, to son Alexander Hume-Campbell, Lord Polwarth. Sent from Hemel Hempstead to Nice. Comments about Alexander and nose bleeding.

7 Dec 1777

From: 1777 To: 1777

Hopes that Lady Bell and the writer's sister received the letters sent to Lyons. reference to current affairs 'The good news from General Howe is I fear counterbalanced by the account of General [John] Burgoyne and his army being all prisiners. We are very anxious about Lord Torphichen' ... though he is not listed among the killed or wounded. General news of freinds and family. 'It gives my great pleasure to find everybody speak of you with so much regard, and shows the advantage of behaving properly.' Mention of Maria Lake, god-daughter of Alexander.

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Hume-Campbell, Alexander (2nd Baron Polwarth),
Hume-Campbell, Alexander,
Marchmont,
Hume-Campbell, Elizabeth,
Hume-Campbell, Amabel, 1st Countess de Grey, 5th Baroness Lucas,
Burgoyne, John,
Howe, William, 5th Viscount,
Sandilands, James [9th Lord Torphichen],
Lake, Maria

family correspondence, travel, Nice, American Revolutionary War