Autograph letter signed with initials : Auchinleck, to [William Johnson] Temple, 1789 July 3.

Telling him that he and his two boys "posted from London to Auchinleck, night and day, in sixty-four hours and a quarter," but that their "haste was all in vain" because "the fatal stroke [his wife's death] had taken place before [they] set out"; writing, "when ... I found that by my going away at that unlucky time I had not been with her to soothe her last moments, I cried bitterly, and upbraided myself for leaving her, for she would not have left me"; reporting that she "expired without any struggle" while "doz[ing] calmly"; describing her funeral and noting that "there were nineteen carriages followed the hearse, and a large body of horsemen and the tenants of all [his] lands"; discussing plans for his children's schooling; remarking that "piety affords the only real comfort"; asking Temple to "write often, though but a few lines."