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- 1754 (Creation)
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To Mr Campbell
As I thought My Dearest you might be anxious to hear further about the Children I write again by this post to let you know Jack is quite recovered; archie got his Physick yesterday & is very merry and hearty tho indeed his couler [sic] & thiness [sic] makes me uneasy the heat in his hands & foulness of the Tongue is the same as yet; I don’t know what effects the mercury and Rhubarb may have after this; I do nothing hardly but gad about, yesterday I was in Town both Morning & afternoon, the first part of the day seeing my Br, & in the afternoon was at Mrs Campbell Finabs etc: so much more I can do with a companion than without one, for Miss Jenny and I visit together if we miss one place we meet in the next visit I was in hopes to have had My Br here to day to dinner but he has so much bisness he could not come but said he’d come some time to day, or let me know that I might come & see him, he has askd about you often when you are to be here, & how you do, & where you go as all [?] occurrd at different times: he was vastly good and sweet as could be. I hope you are well & am my dearest yrs
Grace Campbell
Tuesday
I believe my dr you need
not look out for a nursery
maid as I think of getting one
I know here.
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'Jack' was Lady Grace and John Campbell's son John (b.07/12/1753). 'Archie' was son Archibald, (b.02/11/1752). Mercury was widely used in Georgian medicine as a purgative, in treatment of convulsive conditions, and of syphilis. 'Town' would be Edinburgh, where the Campbell's had a home in the Cowgate. Major Duncan Campbell was the incumbent of Inverawe until his death in 1758. He was married to Jane Campbell of Finab, daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Campbell of Finab (Fonab, Pitlochry). Miss Jenny is John Campbell's sister Jane. Lady Grace had two older brothers, John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, who would be Prime Minister 1762–1763; and Rt. Hon. James Stuart-Mackenzie, Member of Parliament for Ross-shire from 1742 and 1784 and Lord Privy Seal, and a privy counsellor.
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Entry created by Marian Pallister, 20/11/2018