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Country code |
GB |
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Repository code |
234 |
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Organisation |
NAS |
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Repository |
National Records of Scotland |
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Reference |
GD170/1833 |
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Title |
Letter from Daniel Lyman to Alexander Campbell of Barcaldine, advocate. |
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Dates |
c 1785-1794 |
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Access status |
Open |
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Description |
Dealing in increasingly acrimonious terms with the 15 guineas lent by writer to Barcaldine in 1779
c 1785-94. Dated at London etc.
n.d. "Excuse my haste, my friend, as I am going to the House, to hear Mr Burke's propositions, which it is thought will (occasion) a great debate".
1793, March 8. Points out that he has been ruined by the American war, and has to subsist on halfpay, along with his wife, who having been bred to affluence and the expectancy of a great fortune, finds the small pittance not half enought to support them.
1793, October 26. 'Your treatment of me is beyond anything I ever heard of - I had no idea that the love of money or any other consideration could possibly obliterate with a man of education, fortune and who had some reputation to preserve, every spark of gratitude or even common justice'. Adds that he intends to insert in the Edinburgh Glasgow and London papers, an advertisement stating that he, Daniel Lyman, captain on the halfpay of the Prince of Wales's American Regiment, lent Alexander Campbell of Barcaldine, 15 guineas in 1779, from no other motives but humanity and no other knowledge of him than lodging in the same house, and, although, the said Alexander Campbell has since come into possession of an estate of nearly £3,000 a year, he has refused to pay his debt. |
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Level |
File |
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Extent |
15 letters and a scroll answer |
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