| Description | Letter to Capt Patrick [also styled Peter] Campbell, late of Campbell’s Highlanders, c/o Mr David Campbell, WS, Edinburgh (redirected to Crieff). Announcing Mercer’s recent marriage to a lady who is ‘as warm & lively in her temper as Captain Campbell, as great a Dupe as Captain Innes, & as capricious as Captain Mercer ... To finish this blessed Portraiture I must add that she is neither young nor handsome’. |