Dear Sir
I thank you for yr last favor: & shall hope the answer to my questions about the Macgregors is on its way. I leave home soon. you need not answer this soon. but after the 25th ^of next month inclose to Sir Roger M in Bruton street London, for I shall be in town quickly after. I fear you give up poor Mr Low: his M.S.S. shall have the same attention paid to them as ever. I trust that the drawings will be sent.
I am vastly pleased with Lord Hails work. he did me the honor to present one. I know nothing of the [...] magazine. I think I have seen Mr Oliphants views which are excellent. What I may hereafter published [sic] will not be injured by any other work. I have been lucky enough to get a plan of Dornadilla’s Tower.1 I shall thank you for anything you can get without much trouble.
Downing Feb. 23d. 1776.I am
Dear Sir
yr affect.
humble Servt
To Mr Paton,
at the Custom house
Edinburgh
To Mr Paton,
at the Custom house
Edinburgh