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Title: Letter from Wauchope to Campbell, 1709

Author(s): Wauchope, James

Dear Campbell


                I received your letter dated by a
                    few days after it came, owing to our having gone
                    out to Edmonstone, and your Father not knowing
                    where to send it. I am happy to hear you talking
                    of coming down so soon, as to go to Garscube and
                    Panmure: altho' I am afraid you will be disap¬
                    pointed in going to the last mentioned place
                    with your Mother, as She is there just now:
                    & I doubt your Father will be gone before I get
                    into town to get this letter put under a cover for
                    you. I shall make it only a single letter in
                    case that should happen. At present I ride into

                    Edinr. every Morning to attend the Greek &
                    Mathematics, & will do, for a month to come
                    I suppose, altho' it is not very agreable leaving
                    the country to be in town all day, yet if it
                    will mae me understand them, any better
                    I shall forget the inconvenience. You
                    mention in your last Miſs Graham of
                    Gartmore, indeed she is very pretty, but I dont
                    think she is the only pretty Woman altho'
                    I dare not say so to Ruſsell, whom I dined with
                    yesterday we had a very fine ride together
                    being Saturday. I was much obliged to you
                    for your good wishes when I went to the
                    Moors but I have postponed that expedition

                    till next season, as it rather came in the
                    way of my busineſs in Edinr., which was
                    not a very great disappointment, excepting
                    the opportunity of visiting my friends at
                    Dun. I am not great sportsman in the way
                    of shooting. Ruſsell is cursing Mr Pitt
                    [¿] stopping him by his tax, I think [¿]
                    have been an exception, If your Father [¿]
                    of town I am afraid you will think this
                    letter hardly worth the postage there is so little
                    in it, there being no news here but that the proporti¬
                    ons have failed in Irland.


                       I am Dear Archd Yours Sincry
                       James Wanchope
                       P. S. I will expect an answer without minding [¿]