I hope I shall find you and your family in good health, and that you will have spent a very pleasant summer. I am, my dear Purkis,
Very sincerely and affectionately yours,
H. Davy.
TO JOHN GEORGE CHILDREN, ESQ.
Dunkeld, Sept. 27, 1812.
MY DEAR FRIEND,
I have received your two kind letters. I hope your quiet life, and reasonable medical discipline, will entirely restore your health.
We are now on our return, and probably shall arrive in London before the middle of November: our time, however, is uncertain, as the Election may hasten, or keep us back for want of horses.
I can do nothing respecting the licence till my return; I will then see Mr. Wharton, or Mr. Vansittart. I have another subject of conversation in which they are interested, and I can easily introduce that of gunpowder.
I have been tolerably successful as a shot lately. I have not fished. My last adventure was at the Spey, near Gordon Castle, where I killed some noble salmon. At Blair Athol I shot some ptarmigans and a stag. I am now at Dunkeld, which I think the most beautiful habitable spot in the Highlands. The Tay, a noble river, rolls with a majestic stream through lofty woods seated upon cliffs and rounded hills; and in the background are the Mountains of Benyglor and the hills of Killycrankie.