Reverend Dr. Sir,
You’l received from the bearer all that was to the for of the weast
Coat that the P. gave to me, because no Body cou’d get it where I put
it till I came home my self likwise tow of the Buttons that wor in it.
I cou’d get that from Kingsborrow you desired me ——. However he has
it. I have more to tell you when I see ——. Writ to me by the Bearer
mind me most kindly to Lady Bruce & all aquantance Especiall Lady
Balmirina & her sister.
I’m your very humble servant,
MAL MACLEOD.
Rasay, October 13, 1747.
The MSS., sold by the bishop’s widow to Sir Henry Steuart of Allanton,
were acquired by Robert Chambers, who presented them to the Library.
An account of the MSS. appears in _Chambers’s Jacobite Memoirs_.
Edinburgh, 1834.
[Illustration: XVI. MACDONALD]