AN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SCOTSMAN • [To - the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
Sia,—We have read with pleasure the sympathetic review of Lord Fife and his Factor in your issue of May 29th, and would like to assure your reviewer that we had masses of historical notes relative to the innumerable persons mentioned in Lord Fife's letter, but were advised to cut out the greater part of these in order to keep the book within reasonable compass.
The General Grant to whom he refers was James Grant of Ballindalloch. The American, Staats Long Morris (sic) had two Scots wives—one an Urquhart, and the second the widow of the third (not the second) Duke of Gordon. For some reason best known to the authorities, he was buried in_ Westminster Abbey. Lord William Gordon, brother of the reigning duke, was "Lord High Admiral of Scotland."
"Troup," the last member of the dinner party, was Alexander Garden, long the member for Aberdeenshire.— We are, Sir, &v.,
THE EDITORS. OF "LORD FIFE AND HIS FACTOR."
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