[203] Secretary of the Royal Society. The letter was probably in acknowledgment of the intimation of his election as Fellow.
[204] Mr. Adams is Adam the architect, and Mrs. Montagu is the well-known Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu of Portman Square, whose hospitable house was a rival to any of the most brilliant salons of Paris.
[205] Hume MSS., R.S.E. Library.
[206] Burton's Life of Hume, ii. 390.
[207] Hume MSS., R.S.E. Library.
[208] Carlyle's Autobiography, p. 489.
[209] Sinclair's Life of Sir John Sinclair, i. 37.
[210] Fraser's Scotts of Buccleuch, I. lxxxviii., II. 406.
[211] Brougham's Men of Letters, ii. 219.
[212] Brougham's Men of Letters, ii. 219.