BIB_ID
101462
Accession number
MA 23501
Creator
Home, John, 1722-1808.
Display Date
Place not specified, 1746.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 18.7 x 15.3 cm
Notes
From Boswell's Life of Johnson, I, p. 224.
The letter is undated however if the note on the side panel of the address panel is correct the letter would be dated 1746.
Address panel "To the Rev'd Mr. Home / to be left with Mr. Ste / phen Nielson Merchant / in / Berwick." with a note on a side panel "Not to be [illegible]; / May be returned to / Mr. John Home W.S." and with an additional note on an opposite side panel "J. Home / just before the / Battle of Falkirk."
The letter is undated however if the note on the side panel of the address panel is correct the letter would be dated 1746.
Address panel "To the Rev'd Mr. Home / to be left with Mr. Ste / phen Nielson Merchant / in / Berwick." with a note on a side panel "Not to be [illegible]; / May be returned to / Mr. John Home W.S." and with an additional note on an opposite side panel "J. Home / just before the / Battle of Falkirk."
Summary
Reporting that he is to march the next day, the Highlanders have fled and he expects a battle within the week.
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