Letter from George Ramsay, Earl of Dalhousie, Halifax, to an unidentified recipient, 1819 October 5 : autograph manuscript signed.

Thanking him for his kind messages; referring to their long acquaintance; expressing his disappointment about having missed each other at Niagara last summer: "had I but known of the intention I should have waited with great pleasure for your arrival, it would have been a great addition to the pleasure I had in my hasty visit to that country. My time was limited & I was obliged to retrace my steps much faster than my inclination would have otherwise led me. My wish was to have returned to Halifax by the States ; disappointed in that myself, I sent two young friends my Aids de Camp to visit as much of your country as their time would permit, & I gave them a letter of introduction to you to express for me what I have now done. They unfortunately found you absent & brought me my letter back again;" adding in a postscript that a Mr. Cochran has promised to deliver this letter "on his passing at Boston towards Canada."