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III.
DUCHESS OF ARGYLE TO JAMES ANDERSON, ESQ.
Sib,
I send yon the account I got, and the house is piliged all redie, but if
I have any right, I can get an inventer of all, and secuer her, tell she
produsses the things. Ronald will call for my contrack, and you to goe
to the Advocate, which you may doe, but git his advise apart upon my
interest, as also know when I entered to my joynter if the wholl, ore iffe
the halfe years. Pray informe me as to enemys to my selfe, and beg
the advocafs secresie. Adieu.
To
Mr. Anderson, Writer to the Signet.
IV.
DUCHESS OF ARGYLE TO THE HON. JOHN CAMPBELL, &c.
Di/diestoune, ii October 1703,
Ten of the Clock at night.
Gentlemen,
I am verie sensible of all your concerns for the familie, and approves
of your dilligence and procedure, and hopes it may have the desyred
effect.
I have written at length to Collonell Villiars, and lies given him a fidl
accompt of my right and my sones, and the other convinceing circum-
stances of our affaire, and hes given him my heartie thanks for his former
Argyle, and ancestor of the present Duke of Argyle. He married Elizabeth, eldest daughter
of John eighth Lord Elphinstone, and by her had seven sons and six daughters. His wife
survived him many years,— he dying in the year 1730, and she on the 13th April 1738, at
th« advanced age of 85.

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