| Description | 'Since I wrote my dear Peggie I have receive your letter of 5th October, from Quarole and I am glad to notice that you and all the family are well as is my worthy old father. I hope in God that he will be preserved until I return home that I may have the pleasure of seeing him.
I received lateley a letter from William Calendar. It surprised me very much to see the small sum of money that he has got from my esteate and from Castlecarry he has got nothing. Bad management there must be some where and I beg you will enquire into it. Tell Andrew Longmoir to send me a state of the rents 1759 in the manner he used to do. I think he sent me one of 1758...and to send his account at same time to the time he writes me.
I wrote you every thing I can recollect about the alterations of the plan of the new offices. The laying the principall stables may be delayed, but be sure to desire Charles Addison to order a good quality of clinkers from Campaere. You do well to trust as little to John Moir as possible for he can't avoid falling into blunders. I ordered him expressley to make the window in your dressing room that you are to put up the prints in, half as much larger than it was and to put one of the large new casements that are to spare in it. You had best order this to be done yet for the rrom will be dark by that small window. Pray let me know how he has finished the passage in the old part of the house where the closet was to the red silk room. I am glad you have ordered a man from Edinburgh to cassway the court and common stable. Tell him to leave a sort of drains for the water and rain running into the part where the dung hill is and there should be a sort of slop that way for all water running into it. You cannot give too many orders about the drains for keeping everything as dry as possible.
I wish you would send for Mr Bowie again and wish him I desire a plan conform to what I wrote you in my last.I can tho' absent make my remarks and send it to him. I know every bit of that ground as well as the chamber where I sleep in. Send me his first plans when you send this new one. I beleive my brother has them for I don't remember much concerning them.
I am glad your cropt has been so good and that it is so well got in. I hope the conveniencys about the new farm will answer every purpose. O, how I long to get home but I am so engaged that it is impossible to think of it for some time. What a happyness it is for me to find every body pleased and by the reports that have been made from here to the Treasury I find by what Colebrooke writes me, that I am in great favour there, so I hope to have justice done me in my last years accounts etc.
I had a letter yesterday from Jamie Dundas. He had left the army and was at Prymont in his way here where he proposes to stay with me until we may come to England as he had got leave of absence. I wish you good diversion at your great ball at Stirling. My compliments to all friends. Thom does wrong in never writing me.
Farewell my dearest life. I am yours etc LD' |