Memorials of John Geddes

Appendix.
your farm,* and to wish you all the pleasure and profit which this acquisition
has inclined you to anticipate.
In regard to your kind request of paying you a visit at your dwelling, I
have only to say that as soon as you and your Jane shall afford us the pleasure
of seeing you at Braehead, my Jane and I shall lose no time in completing the
necessary arrangements for returning the compliment, and that I shall look
upon your slow or ready acceptance of this proposal as the real criterion by
which I am to judge of your willingness to gratify a desire which would afford
us so much unmingled satisfaction. I am sure that the season of spring has
been so favourable for the operations of agriculture, that you can have no room
to urge any reasonable objection against the speedy fulfilment of this request,
and therefore I hope that, upon the receipt of this letter, you will hold a
conference about the matter, and acquaint me concerning the time at which it
will be most convenient for you to undertake the jaunt, and hoping that you
will not delay to remit me a favourable answer, I am, with compliments to
yourself and Jane, in which I am joined by Mr Laingt and Mrs M'C,
My Dear Sir,
Yours most sincerely,
Alexander M'Connachie.
To Mr John Geddes, Glass.
* The section that came to him about this time from Wester Bodylair, noted above
on p. 62.
t Father of Mrs M'C.
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