My Lord
Fridays post brought your Graces of the 15th. I must have expressed myself very improperly in my former Letters, to have given your Grace so much trouble in writing about this Commission to my son Colin. Accept of my most thankfull [sic] acknowledgements for your Great Goodness to me in this matter. Nothing would have made me prefer a Regiment at home for him to one abroad but his mothers great aversion to his serving in America as this prejudice seems to be apparently so much to his hurt I have long ago got over it; and I hope Lady Grace will soon do so too.
With Greatest Respect and Highest Esteem I have the Honour to be
My Lord
Your Graces much oblidged [sic] and Most Faithfull Humble Servant
Jo Campbell
Edinburgh 22 July