Return to the Above said Paragraph, January 16. 1749
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Return to the Above said Paragraph, Janry
16. 1749
Forbes
Return to the above said paragraph January 16. 1749
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Paragraph of a letter in return to the preceding
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Forbes
Vol. 6, 1159—1160Paton
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| Person | Robert Forbes |
| Date | 16 Jan 1749 |
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| Person | George Innes |
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Pray lose no time in sending me by some sure hand what you mention, for it will be most acceptable (Paton V.2, 224).
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Copy of a Paragraph of a Let-
ter (dated, JanryJanuary 16th, 1749) in Re-
turn to the preceedingpreceding Paragraph
I still retain the old Opinion
[o]f You, that you are a very dilatory
[C]orrespondent; but then (my Friend)
[w]hat is well done is soon done.
[P]ray, lose no Time in sending me,
[b]y some sure Hand, what you mention;
[f]or it will be most acceptable. Cor-
[r]espondents can never superabound
[wi]th me in that Point. I must own,
[I] liked much your Caution &and Scrupu-
[lo]sity; for every Thingeverything should be as
[we]ll vouched as possible.
N: B:
1160
(1160)
[o]f You, that you are a very dilatory
[C]orrespondent; but then (my Friend)
[w]hat is well done is soon done.
[P]ray, lose no Time in sending me,
[b]y some sure Hand, what you mention;
[f]or it will be most acceptable. Cor-
[r]espondents can never superabound
[wi]th me in that Point. I must own,
[I] liked much your Caution &and Scrupu-
[lo]sity; for every Thingeverything should be as
[we]ll vouched as possible.
N: B:
Saturday
In the End of 1746, or in the
Beginning of 1747, the foresaid
Mr Geo:George Innes had (altogether
of himself) made a promise to
his own Cousin, the RevdReverend Mr
George Cheyne, Deacon, that
he (Innes) would use his En-
deavours in making up as ex[-]
act a Narrative, or Journal,
as possible of the Prince’s Af-
fairs in the North before, ^at &and after
the Battle of Culloden, &and that
he would transmit the Said
Journal to me. As the Promise
proceeded altogether from
Mr Innes’s own good Will wit[h-]
out any the smallest Suggesti[-]
on from me, I therefore ex-
pected the more exact &and faith-
ful Performance of it. Af-
ter waiting a long Time to
no purpose at all, I at last
writ him several short Notes
wherein I used him with muc[h]
Freedom &and Plainness. We mad[e]
Choice of writing in a dark W[ay]
calling the Matter a Process
of mine, because Letters were
frequently opened in the Post-
Offices.
Beginning of 1747, the foresaid
Mr Geo:George Innes had (altogether
of himself) made a promise to
his own Cousin, the RevdReverend Mr
George Cheyne, Deacon, that
he (Innes) would use his En-
deavours in making up as ex[-]
act a Narrative, or Journal,
as possible of the Prince’s Af-
fairs in the North before, ^at &and after
the Battle of Culloden, &and that
he would transmit the Said
Journal to me. As the Promise
proceeded altogether from
Mr Innes’s own good Will wit[h-]
out any the smallest Suggesti[-]
on from me, I therefore ex-
pected the more exact &and faith-
ful Performance of it. Af-
ter waiting a long Time to
no purpose at all, I at last
writ him several short Notes
wherein I used him with muc[h]
Freedom &and Plainness. We mad[e]
Choice of writing in a dark W[ay]
calling the Matter a Process
of mine, because Letters were
frequently opened in the Post-
Offices.
Robert Forbes, A: M:
Citation
Forbes, Robert. “Return to the above said paragraph January 16. 1749.” The Lyon in Mourning,
vol. 6,
Adv.MS.32.6.21, fol. 27r–27v. The Lyon in Mourning Project,
edited by Leith Davis, https://lyoninmourning.dhil.lib.sfu.ca/