| Description | 'It is now allmost two months since the date of the last letter I recieved from my dear life it being dated the 12th of August. What can be your reasons for not writin me I don't know, but if all the letters i have wrote you have come to your hands you will see that tho hurried very much I never neglected writing you. Mastertone writes me from Edinburgh that he had mett you there the 5th September and that you was well. I hope it continues so and I hope you will approve of the alterations I mention for you to make about the new building but do my dear Peggie what you think best in whatever concerns anything about the Kerse. It would be great pleasure to me to hear how things are going on whcih if you will be so good as write me once a week I shall be greatly obliged to you. Pray let me know if you saw Ronald Craufurd when at Edinburgh and what he said for letting Kersiebank slip through his fingers and slo what he says concerning Robert Seton's farms of Bangour for I want to be at a point in these things. Write me all sorts of news and how my good old father holds it.
I have gone on here this campaigne to the satisfation of every person that I am concerned with, whcih has not been the case with Mr Oswald and Colonel Graeme. The complaints of every thing regarding their contracts came to so great a degree that Lord Grandby and Prince Ferdinand was plagued every hour of the day with them, and as they had not Mr Hunter to protect them this year as he did last there complaints went all to the Treasury at home so Colonel Pierson and some others was ordered to examiine into the state of the contractors affairs, and I had the satisfaction of knowing that their report was most favourable for me and quite contrary for Oswald and Graeme, but the thieff Oswald to save himself has thrown the whole blame on Graeme, pretending that Mr Hunter employed him in other business which obliged him to leave the direction of all things to Graeme who had disappoited him as well as the army. This has saved him just now but Graeme is ordered to leave the army. However, people thinks that Oswald will not be able to go on long with the contract and every body detests him seeing he wants to cheat Graeme as he did me. I though this history would amuse you. You may tell Masterton of it and that perhaps he may live to hear of the thieffs being hanged.
Adieu, yours etc etc' |