Letter: 1820 June 7, Office for Trade, Whitehall [London] to David Laing, Southbridge, Edinbro. / Geo. Chalmers. 1820.

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Letter: 1820 June 7, Office for Trade, Whitehall [London] to David Laing, Southbridge, Edinbro. / Geo. Chalmers. 1820.

Explains that there are a number of papers relating to Mary Queen of Scots and Bothwell in Copenhagen which he could arrange to have sent over.

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