The next two letters are addressed to an old friend and fellow-member
of the Speculative Society, who had passed Advocate six years before,
on the same day as R. L. S. himself, and is now Lord Guthrie, a
Senator of the Scottish Courts of Justice, and has Swanston Cottage,
sacred to the memory of R. L. S., for his summer home.
_Kinnaird Cottage, Pitlochry, June 30, 1881._
MY DEAR GUTHRIE,--I propose to myself to stand for Mackay's chair. I can
promise that I will not spare to work. If you can see your way to help
me, I shall be glad; and you may at least not mind making my candidature
known.--Believe me, yours sincerely,