for fear our aquantanceacquaintance should wear
out I thought fittfit to give you this trou-
ble by ane express goeinggoing there, thothough I
have litle more to say than to aquant
you that all your welwisherswellwishers here are
well except Malcom Macleod of Brea,
who is in such a bad stat of health
that I am afrayedafraid he will not gettget
the better of it, seeing he was not able
to obey your comandscommands he sent your
letter to me in order to be sighted
to the new maryedmarried couple qchwhich you
may easily believe was acceptable to
old and young, thothough the young folk
has the gaitygaiety of youthood to cheer
them, the old must become spiritless for 1626 (1626)
for many reasons needless to trouble you
with unless it were in your power to
let us partake of the proper medicine
qchwhich if not speedily aplyedapplied will be
of no use to some of us as I beginnbegin
my sixty third to morowtomorrow Old Mac-
Kinnon has been wery bad but is
now better, I and the great man
here are not in speaking terms on
acountaccount of the unhallowed letter
(qchwhich I have still by me) qchwhich I asureassure
you gives me no maner of pain my
ribbrib and I offersoffer you our kind ser-
vice as does ^as my son and daughter
pray mind us to worthy lady Bruce
Mr Rattry and his lady and Mr
Lader the Surgeon if you be aquant1
with him and all others that will
be soe good as enquire for us and