Item 20 - Letter from Lady Grace Campbell to John Campbell, Advocate (no address)

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Letter from Lady Grace Campbell to John Campbell, Advocate (no address)

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  • 1754 (Creation)

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To John Campbell Esq
Advocate at

My Dearest Life
I had the pleasure of yr most welcome Epistle by this days post but not a word yet of your moving which Im surprised at, as it draws so nigh the twentieth when you talkd of being here for some tryal, not that I can hear of any and I have been asking all the Lawyers I have seen about it. The Races or Diversions are going on evry day tho’ since Sunday I have not seen a Soul, for early on Monday morning Miss Mailly left this to go to Strathers [sic] the report of Miss Bettys coming made her write sooner than she proposed for her Horses, for She told me she intended to have waitted [sic] yr return, but that she thought yr Sister would have occasion to occupy her appartment [sic], & regretted much her going when she understood where Miss Betty was to put up, but the Horses were summoned, so there was no help for it. I saw yr Sister & Lady Dolly for a start & Sunday evening I forgot My Dearest to write you in my last that the poor old Captain is departed this Life; he died this day sevenight [sic], I heard say he recovered his senses, but I don’t know if it was so, only this I know that if he died as he lived, it fills me with the utmost horror to think of the lost [?] condition that his wretched Soul is now in for an endless eternity; tis really quite shocking to think of it, but the mercy of God thro Christ is infinite, & I hope poor Creature he has found Grace tho’ at the last, to ask it. I’m vastly pleased My Dr Life to hear you pass your time so agreeably, but dont forget among so many gay & agreeable Persons that you’r engaged elsewhere; I heard this day from yr Sister Jenny, all at Levenside are well, I design to enclose this to her, as she’ll know where you are. I proposed My scheme of Nursing to the Doctor he seems to have no objections but the risk one runs of catching cold which is an objection every Body tho’ ever so robust might have. I was interrupted here by the arrival of Appin & the young Bailly of Jura who has been drinking Tea with me. the last tells me the Commissioners promises are like to come to nothing, for he says now he cant serve him, the opposition he finds is so strong against him. I hope my Dr Life to see you this week notwithstanding you dont say any thing of it; in the mean time I remain my best Loved Moitié
Yr sincerest Friend as
well as Dutiful Wife
Grace Campbell.
Tuesday 18th

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    Levenside in Dunbartonshire (or Dumbartonshire as it is written by Lady Grace, was the Campbell of Stonefield family home where John Campbell's father and mother lived. John and Lady Grace's children seem to have frequently stayed with their grandparents (Archibald Campbell, 2nd of Stonefield, advocate and Sheriff Depute of Argyllshire and Jane, née Frend, who was first married to Captain Alexander Ogilvy of Forglen in the County of Banff). 'Miss Betty' is John Campbell's sister Elizabeth, who would marry Colin Campbell of Carwhin in 1758 (their son became 1st Marquess of Breadalbane). John Campbell's other sister, Jane, married Sir John Campbell, 5th of Airds. She was referred to by Lady Grace as 'Jenny'.

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    Entry created by Marian Pallister, 20/11/2018

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