History of the Fife Pitcairns

CANON PITCAIRN'S LIFE AT ECCLES. 315
official life, refusing on retiring to take the portion of the
income of the bishopric due to him, on the ground that
an inadequate income might be a hindrance to the best
man being appointed as his successor.
A great preacher, a deep thinker, a man to whom the
greatest Churchmen of our day can look up to with rever-
ence and esteem, he was indeed a Bishop to be thankful for.
From The Dowager-Duchess of Roxburghe to The Rev.
Canon Pitcairn, The Vicarage, Eccles, Lancashire.
Broxmouth, January iSth, 1889.
My dearest James, — I have not been ungrateful to you nor
E. and M., still less to C, for your loving thoughts and very pretty
offerings at Christmas. Indeed I value your affection most truly,
and more each year. I trust you have good news of your dear
absent boys. Do tell me of Willie, and how the youngest is getting
on. I have this week a double interest in absent sons ! for my
dear Johnnie Russell is going next month to the Argentine republic,
and it is just settled that Charlie accompanies Lord Kintore to
Adelaide as A.D.C., — a good appointment and beginning for him,
though no one knows how I shall miss him.
Thank God, all my belongings seem well. Susan l I saw yester-
day. Her boy gone back to Eton to matriculate at Oxford in
spring. I am going to write to-morrow to dear C, at Florence
still, I conclude.
With much love to the dear girls and their dear mother. God
bless you. — Your most affectionate friend, S. Roxburghe.
From The Dowager-Duchess of Roxburghe to The Rev.
Canon Pitcairn, The Vicarage, Eccles, Lancashire.
Broxmouth Park, Dunbar,
February 'jth, 1891.
My dearest James, — Before I begin, let me send my kindest
love to all around you, and to your dear self, all being, I trust,
well — as we all are, so far as I know, thank God. I go South the
week after next, to take up my agreeable duties at Windsor on the
20th.
The object of my letter is my dear Lilian, who will be seventeen
on the 23rd June. She is a dear child, young for her age in some
Lady Susan Grant Suttie.