I had two Visits this Winter &and Spring
from your old ffriendFriend Patrick Grant
whose Picture I’m told hangs in Tar-
tan-hall, this favour no doubt I
owe you, as it is certainly on your Ac-
count he pays me that ComplementCompliment.
He certainly has a most grateful Sense
of your obligations to him, and openly
declares you are the Man in the
World he loves best, &and that he owes
most to — but do you know a Secret
about him, he made a notable figure
in NorthX America for one Campaign
only agtagainst the French, owing to a par-
ticular Friend who would not dis-
pense with his Attendance — And
he has returned Safe and Sound
and has Chelsea Pension; he was
a night in the Neighbourhood of Leith,
but had not Countenance enough to
visit a certain Friend, being afraid of
being banter’dbantered1 for Something— The
last time he was here he gave me
a Pair of good Isle of Sky Garters in 1874 (1874)
in order to be sent to you as a Pre-
sent, and Mr Ross is so kind as un-
dertake to carry them, so that you’ll
receive them I hope Safe herewith—