Memoir of the Chisholm

iO HIS LETTERS, &C.
was quite glad too. When I first opened the
letter in the stable, Bob very politely stood
back, as he knew it would not be well-bred to
read a person's letter without his leave. Jack
begs to send some hair ; Caesar's is white, in
coloured paper. Duncan would have sent
some, but he says he was afraid of conveying
the jaundice to Cambridge, and infecting your
studies.""'
The only other document which the writer
has been able to find, which throws light upon
this period of the Chishohns boyish days, is a
paragraph in the Inverness Courier, which he
here inserts, because he has reason to know
that the circumstance which it relates was
his own spontaneous act.
" Chisholm of Chisholm. — We have
learned, with much pleasure, that young
Chisholm of Chisholm has lately sent twenty
guineas to William Fraser, Esq. of Culbockie,
to be distributed among the poor of Strath-
glass. We understand also that he gave
twenty-five pounds last year for the same
purpose ; and that both these donations were