Letter from Elizabeth Campbell Containing Health Advice
Author(s): Campbell, Elizabeth
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I recieved yours and regreat the melincolly account
you gave me of your ill state of helth
I send you [¿] which has done great
[¿] in your caſe and offers us the [¿]
[¿] my advyce is that you take three
sponfulls of the [¿] every morning in a draft
of [¿] milk [¿]
I [¿] you may be soon very well [¿]
[¿] had provided for
Arche Campbell your son, I hope sone your
other son will be provided for also,
I will not fail to come by you as I goe
for Edr in caſe it pleaſe god to spare you
which I pray god you may be and [¿]
powerfully to your helth,
My lord [¿] shall [¿] me [¿]
[¿] to be houſe keeper to her
brother at the [¿],
[¿]
[¿] she has [¿] her selfe away
upon, she has two children alive and one
dead and [¿] has had but two and
both alive Mrs Menzies is in good helth
and is [¿] your humble servant, I am
Dear Madam
your faithfull humble
servant
E Argyl
My [¿] and best
[¿] to Soccoch,
and your dauhter
[¿]
Elizth. of [¿]
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Letter from Elizabeth Campbell Containing Health Advice. 2025. In The Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing. Glasgow: University of Glasgow. Retrieved 30 November 2025, from http://www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk/cmsw/document/?documentid=378.
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Letter from Elizabeth Campbell Containing Health Advice
Document Information
| Document ID | 378 |
| Title | Letter from Elizabeth Campbell Containing Health Advice |
| Year group | 1700-1750 |
| Genre | Personal writing |
| Year of publication | 1731 |
| Wordcount | 174 |
Author information: Campbell, Elizabeth
| Author ID | 285 |
| Forenames | Elizabeth |
| Surname | Campbell |
| AKA | Duchess of Argyll |
| Gender | Female |
| Year of birth | 1659 |
| Place of birth | Suffolk, England |
| Occupation | Noblewoman |
| Mother's occupation | Noblewoman |
| Father's occupation | Nobleman |
| Locations where resident | Edinburgh, Campeltown |
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