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Tell me all you have been doing. Best respects to your Aunt and
Captain Landless.1?Your affectionate husband, George Johnston. Mrs
Johnston, Easington House, Belford. Wednesday, lgth April 1820. My
dear Catharine, ?Dr Clark came here to-day at five o'clock, and
intends staying all to-morrow. He goes to Melrose on Friday
morning, and thence home. He is very vexed at not seeing you, as he
says he came chiefly for that purpose, and I am so, too, for I am
too proud of you not to wish to show you to my friends. But you
must not come home, as he makes so short a stay. I walked a mile
and a half to meet Clark, missed him, and found him on my return,
at my fireside. He was very weary; he had ridden from Winterfield,
near Dunbar, this morning. I breakfasted with Mr Young this
morning; there were present Mr Sworde and Mr Balmer. At Mr Laurie's
last night, the same company as above, with Mr Bland, from the
neighbourhood of Paisley. Addison Steavenson's2 dinner party was
put off until to-morrow, and I cannot go.? Thursday, April 2Oth.
Clark is at this very moment copying a letter from your album. He
goes away to-morrow. He sends his very best compliments, and is
sorry he has missed you.?Yours affectionately, GEORGE JOHNSTON. Mrs
Johnston, Easington House, Belford. 1 Captain William Landless,
R.N., Mrs Johnston's uncle by marriage with Margaret Charles, is
thus mentioned by Lord Collingwood in a letter to Lord Barbara,
dated 28th March 1806. "Lieutenant Landless, the only person I
recommended to your Lordship, is an old and a valuable officer; he
has followed me from ship to ship, all the war. A complaint which
he had in his eyes prevented his going into the ' Sovereign' when I
removed, a few days before the action; but I did hope that my
earnest recommendation to your Lor...
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