Autograph letter signed : Edinburgh, to Charles Arbuthnot, [1811] Feb. 23.

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Autograph letter signed : Edinburgh, to Charles Arbuthnot, [1811] Feb. 23.

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Thanking him for his letter and saying he is "inexpressibly obliged by the interest you have been pleased to take in my affairs at the request of my kind & never failing friend the Marchioness of Abercorn." Referencing his relationship with Lord Melville; discussing at length and in confidence his potential appointment to an office and the need to secure a pension for the superannuated and deaf Mr. George Home.

1 item (5 p., with address) ; 19.6 and 25.5 cm

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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