Address panel with part of a seal to "Right Hon.ble / The Lady Anne Hamilton / Palace of Hamilton;" over the address is a note "Tell Eliza that the Picture is / Blount Earl of Newport."
With a note on the verso "You are my Mademoiselle Gournay, / I have left you by my will the first Heiress / of my writings, and so as long as my name lives, yours will be handed down to Posterity. / Mrs. Barbanld [?] is the second."
Part of a collection of twelve letters from the Earl of Buchan to Lady Anne Hamilton. Letters have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Referring to being "present at an Election of the Peers of Scotland" and thanking her for her friendship in bringing it about; discussing mutual friends; commending the "Noble conduct of your Princely Father, whom I declare to be the genuine Head of the House of Douglas on its old & original Title of Honour & Spirit..;" expressing his happiness that she is pleased with the picture of the Countess of Lennox; adding that he has written to "investigate the story of the Miniature of Queen Mary which is so old a one that there may be about it some mal-entendre, it being very long since I heard it from the family of Mar;" wishing to "cultivate the Friendship of the House of Hamilton" but expressing his regret of "being born as it were out of due time & in such circumstances that I cannot do it so much or so often as I should wish & do sincerely desire, but however it may be I shall not cease to avail myself of every opportunity of assuring your Ladyship of the sincere esteem of your faithful Servant."