Copy of a Letter to Mr Robert Forbes at My Lady Bruce's Lodgings Leith
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Letters from, & to, Major MacDonell,
when in Carlisle-Castle
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Copy of a Letter to Mr Robert Forbes at My Lady Bruce's Lodgings Leith
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Letters from and to Major MacDonell when in Carlisle Castle
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Letter to Mr. Robert Forbes
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Vol. 1, 77—78Paton
Vol. 1, 40—41Credits
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“the following Copies of Letters [...] are faithfully transcrib'd from the Major's own Hand-writ, with a Return to one of them, transcrib'd from an Holograph of the Writer.”
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| Person | Donald MacDonell of Tiendrish |
| Date | 28 Sep 1746 |
| Place | Carlisle Castle |
| Place |
received
| Person | Robert Forbes |
| Place | Lady Bruce 's house |
acknowledgements
“I wrote you &and Mr Moir a joint Letter about ten days agoe.”
compliments to
Mr (Hugh) Clerk's Family “but Miss Mally in particular ”
the rest of the honest Folks in that City (Leith)
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Copy of a Letter to Mr Ro-
bert Forbes at My Lady
Bruce's Lodgings Leith.
DrDear Sir,
Wishing, from my whole
Heart, that these may find you &and
all your Leith Friends in good
Health, I have had a little bit
Fever some Days past; but, God
be blessed, I am now in good
Health, Heart &and Spirits; and,
if it is my Fate to goego to the
Scaffold, I dare say, that I’ll
goego to Death, as a Christian &and
a Man of Honour ought to do.
But it is possible, that a broken
ill-us’dused Major may be a Colo-
nel before he dies. You’ll
make my Compliments to My
Lady Bruce, Mr Clerk’s Family,
but Miss Mally in particular, &and
the rest of the honest Folks in
that City, &and accept of the same
from him, who is with the greatest
Sincerity, Affection &and Esteem,
Heart, that these may find you &and
all your Leith Friends in good
Health, I have had a little bit
Fever some Days past; but, God
be blessed, I am now in good
Health, Heart &and Spirits; and,
if it is my Fate to goego to the
Scaffold, I dare say, that I’ll
goego to Death, as a Christian &and
a Man of Honour ought to do.
But it is possible, that a broken
ill-us’dused Major may be a Colo-
nel before he dies. You’ll
make my Compliments to My
Lady Bruce, Mr Clerk’s Family,
but Miss Mally in particular, &and
the rest of the honest Folks in
that City, &and accept of the same
from him, who is with the greatest
Sincerity, Affection &and Esteem,
My DrDear Sir
Castle Carlisle,
SeptrSeptember 28th,
1746.
SeptrSeptember 28th,
1746.
Citation
Forbes, Robert. “Copy of a Letter to Mr Robert Forbes at My Lady Bruce's Lodgings Leith.” The Lyon in Mourning,
vol. 1,
Adv.MS.32.6.16, fol. 51r–51v. The Lyon in Mourning Project,
edited by Leith Davis, https://lyoninmourning.dhil.lib.sfu.ca/