Volume 62: Walter Stevenson Davidson papers, 1815-1846: No. 048
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Inchmarlo Kincardineshire
N.B. 3rd Feb: 1829.
My dear & esteemed Friend!
I have to thank you very much for your letter by your dear James whom I had the satisfaction to see something of on his arrival, but of whom I hope to see much more on our return to London in April. He is but little changed and his appearance constantly reminds me of the grave wise Boy I remember him some twenty two years ago! –
William must be more changed from what his dear Mother wrote me of him a couple of years ago – and whch. James has since confirmed – I find that the latter and Edward are late returned from an excursion – They were afraid of Scotland at this season, but without cause, for we have had a winter of Spring weather, and with very little to interrupt out of door exercise. – I am very glad to find from your Sons that the affair of the Judges is like to occasion you no further annoyance – You have been subjected to far too much, and I sincerely hope & wish you may be exempted in future – your Society is a very peculiar one surely; & to it the rules applicable in this Country I am well aware; cannot often be applied.
I was truly happy to receive so very pleasing an account from James, of yr. dear Family Circle & I had many other details to learn, when we
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After reading all these details, I think I hear my dear Friends Mrs MacArthur, Elizabeth & yourself & perhaps my little friend William – and perhaps Mrs Bowman too, whom I always like to include in the family picture, observe "How odd that he should settle so far from London, the seat of his business and also of ¾ of his family connexions" – and you would think so still more if you saw what a nice small House we have lately got in the Regents Park with an Acre of ground attached, and where
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