Papers of David Skene: correspondence: Letter from John Hope to David Skene Letter from John Hope to David Skene in which he informs him of the trial he had made in sending a botanist on an excursion to Hamilton, Ayr, Arran, Kintyre, Inverary, to the coast of Lorn and then up across country to Inverness; the Commissioners of the Annexed Estates have made a small grant to enable him to continue his botanical journey for a further six months; he asks Skene's advice as to his future itineraries; he suggests that the itinerant botanist should ask the country people about the uses to which they put plants; he refers to a trip he made to London where he and Sir James Naesmith spent time with John Ellis, 26 March 1767. 26 March 1767