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THE FRASERS OF PHILORTH, LORDS SALTOUN. 221
Spanish Earn, and picked Herefordshire Ewes, I expect next year to have
Lambs to begin a new race. I have been likewise amusing myself with
literary pursuits, and have put lately into a bookseller's hands a Life of
Andrew Fletcher of Salton, to be prefixed to an Edition of his works that
remains unsold !
" This Life is of no great extent, as I do not enter into any account of his
writings, which sufficiently speak for themselves. I have likewise bestowed
a leisure hour now and then on writing some light pieces for Dr. Anderson's
Bee, which promises of late to be an useful miscellany. But my great
employment has been the furthering the new road to Glasgow thro' my West
Lothian property, and the Tweed Navigation, the estimate for which amount-
ing only to £14,000, we have now on our Table.
" It will give me great pleasure to hear that your political fervor is no
wise abated, and that, notwithstanding, you turn yourself to agriculture and
political economy in your own country and district.
" I have always entertained the sincerest friendship for you, mixt with
the best opinion of your integrity and merit, and will rejoice in every
circumstance that shall tend to make you more and more usefull, and
consequently more and more situated to your own satisfaction. Lady
Buchan joins in kind wishes and respects to your Lordship, to Lady
Saltoun, and your whole family, and I remain with continued regard and
esteem,
" My dear Lord,
" Y r LoP s most faithful and obed* serv*,
" Buchan.
" Major-General Stuart, M.P., Edin r , will forward letters to the Abbey,
when you give me the pleasure of y r correspondence."
Endorsed in Lord Saltoun's hand :
" Sent the Albanian Duan, Pictish houses in Buchan, etc."
" Dry burgh Abbey, October 31 st , 1791.
" My deae Lord, — Sincerely congratulating you on the safe and happy
time of Lady Saltoun, and the birth of another son, I must at the same time
felicitate you on the respectable and useful employment of your time, by