The earls of Cromartie; their kindred, country, and correspondence . ANNE DUCHESS OF BUCCLEUGH AND MONMOUTH, 1704. 269 478. Edinburgh, January 23, circa 1704. I HOPE your Lordship will be as good as your word, and wrett till I desir the contrary; but that my ansuers might be mor agreeabll, I wish I wer in a place which did afford some neus, since all publik matters you know better then I do, and privatt are sildom worth knowing. Wliat then shall I make my theme of? To fancey, I dare not trust; that is not good enough to intertain you with. Busines is not verie plesent; if it wer, I would compl
The earls of Cromartie; their kindred, country, and correspondence . ANNE DUCHESS OF BUCCLEUGH AND MONMOUTH, 1704. 269 478. Edinburgh, January 23, circa 1704. I HOPE your Lordship will be as good as your word, and wrett till I desir the contrary; but that my ansuers might be mor agreeabll, I wish I wer in a place which did afford some neus, since all publik matters you know better then I do, and privatt are sildom worth knowing. Wliat then shall I make my theme of? To fancey, I dare not trust; that is not good enough to intertain you with. Busines is not verie plesent; if it wer, I would complean of the delays I meet with in my law affirs, tho I have shown great diligence, and have allmost abandoned your Hous of Dalkeith to soliciett for redress and dispatch, two verie precious things. I belive in a short time I shall be glade of any one of them. I am sorry my Lord Clarendon and your lordship meets so sildom, for I ever finds satisfaction in hearing of my frinds being together. I would wrett all Isabellas own words in answer to your constant remembrins
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