| Description | Letters from King Charles II to the Countess Marischal
Two letters sent by King Charles II while in exile in Cologne to the Countess Marischal at Dunnottar:
1. Collen [Cologne],4 January 1665
"I have so much to thank you for that for your sake I mention no particulars, but am confident I shall live to see you, when we shall be merry and comfort one another with the memory of what wee have done and suffered. I choose rather to let you have these two or 3 lines from me then to suffer you to imagine I know not how much I owe you, and if this acknowledgement miscarryes, it can do you no harm, and you will some other way know that I am very hartily
Your most affectionate frinde
Charles R."
2. Collen [Cologne],18 September 1665
"Madam I have trusted Mrs. Jannet Browne to sollisit a businesse in wch I am much concerned, and I cannot doubte of your readynesse to to assiste her in it, wch I pray do, and I shall live to thanke you and give you excuse to believe that I am heartily,
Madame,
Your very affectionate constant frinde
Charles R." |