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Keswick Museum and Art Gallery, WC 185. ALS; 2p. . Not previously published.
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May it please your Majesty!
This day, Tuesday the 7th of Sept. 1819, I am at Dingwall, the capital of the
county of Ross, having returned here from Fleet Mound. Fleet Mound is an embankment across an inlet of the sea, 990
yards in length (something more than half a mile) over which the road passes, – the road & the parapet walls
filling the whole breadth of the mound, which is 20 feet at the top 140 at the base, & 16 from the bottom.xxx back to sleep at Bonar Bridge, & returned this day,
by a different road to Dingwall.
Tomorrow the Ladies & childrenr Telford Mr Rickman & I in a post chaise, &
Mr Mitchellr Telford
& Mr Rickman have some business there,
which will detain them two or three days. But on Wednesday at latest we shall begin our way homeward from Inverness
by going up the locks at this end of the Caledonian Canal in a sloop.
Queen Bertha if it would <might> please your Majesty to favour me with a few lines
written by your own royal hand, to tell me that your Mamma
& you & your sisters
Queen Bertha I kiss your Majestys hand & feet.
I beg leave to inform your Majesty as in duty bound, that I behave.