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.
I am
Dear Sir
yr affect.
humble Servt
To Mr Paton,
at the Custom house
Edinburgh
To Mr Paton,
at the Custom house
Edinburgh