Life of Flora Macdonald and her adventures with Prince Charles

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get one from him, you would very much oblige me by dropping me a
few lines communicating to me the most material part of this letter.
I hope you and the ladies of your family will accept of my kindest
respects, and I ever am, with esteem,
Dear Madam, your affectionate, humble servant,
Flora Macdonald.
P.S. — Please direct to me, to Mrs. Macdonald, late of Kingsborrow,
South Uist, by Dunvegan.
To Mrs. Mackenzie of Delvine, by Dunkeld.
The second reads : —
Milton, 3rd July, 1782.
Dear Madam, — I received your agreeable favour a fortnight ago,
and I am happy to find that your health is not worse than when I left
you. I return you my most sincere thanks for your being so mindful of
me as to send me the agreeable news about Johny's arrival, which re-
lieved me of a great deal of distress, as that was the first accounts I had
of him since he sailed. 1 think, poor man, he has been very lucky for
getting into bread so soon after landing. I had a letter from John
which, I suppose, came by the same conveyance with yours. I am told
by others that it will be in his power now to show his talents, as being in
the engineer department. He speaks feelingly of the advantages he got
in his youth, and the good example shovv'd him, which I hope will keep
him from doing anything that is either sinful or shameful.
I received a letter from Captain Macdonald, my husband, dated from
Halifax, the 12th Nov. '81. He was then recovering his health, but
had been very tender for some time before. My son, Charles, is captain
in the British Legion, and James a lieutenant in the same. They are
both in New York. Ranald is captain of Marines, and was with Rod-
ney at the taking of St. Eustati. As for my son Sandy who was amissing I
had accounts of his being carried to Lisbon, but nothing certain, which
I look upon, on the whole, as a hearsay ; but the kindness of Providence
is still to be looked upon, as I have no reason to complain, as God has
been pleased to spare his father and the rest. I am now in my brother's
house, on my way to Skye, to attend my daughter, who is to ly-in in
August. They are all in health at present. As for my health at present,
it's tolerable, considering my anxious mind and distress of times.
It gives me a great deal of pleasure to hear such good accounts of