| Description | Letter to her nephew [probably Andrew Gordon] from Marie Nairne de Ramsay, wishing him well on his departure from Europe, but hoping that if the climate does not agree with his health he might consider settling in France, but not in a village as he suggests, for he would see little of fortune or society there, hoping he will be able to travel to France so she can see him, wishing his family well in Scotland and St Croix, her husband has been reading work which has caused him to doubt his first principles, hopes that his sisters have been raised in the faith of their father, possibility of retrieving her husband’s manuscripts from Dr Stevenson in Edinburgh, including ‘The philosophical principles of natural and revealed religion unfolded in a Geometrical order by the chevalier Ramsay’, which was then printed, asking him to enquire after a portrait of Ramsay, [date damaged] 1764. French |