Autograph letter signed : Pontresina, to William Angus Knight, 1902 August 6.

Concerning a request from Professor Knight for additional information on his brother John Brown; saying "I am afraid I cannot give you much help. My brother John and I were so seldom far from one another that I got few letters from him, and I have not kept those I did get. I have written all I feel able to write about him in a sort of introductory note to the last edition of Miss M'Laren's sketches of 'Dr. John Brown and his sisters Isabella & Jane' published along with the A. & C. Black's last edition of my brothers writings. I suppose by the great bibliographer you mean John Taylor Brown. He was the son of Dr. William Brown my grandfather's half brother and so was our cousin not brother. He was a very intimate friend of us all and particularly of my brother John - They were nearly of the same age, and were close friends from the time my father came to Edinburgh in 1824. He was engaged at the time of his death and for many years before - indeed almost from the time of my brothers death - in an account of my brother's work, rather than of his life - I do not know whether this is in a state fit for publication or not, but I hope and am inclined to believe it is - He never spoke much to me about and I have not seen the manuscript.;" offering to help with any other particular points of fact.