[84] Printer of the Edinburgh Evening Courant.

[85] A club of boon companions.


XCIX.—To MRS. DUNLOP.

MAUCHLINE,

August

2

nd

, 1788.

HONOURED MADAM,—Your kind letter welcomed me, yesternight, to Ayrshire. I am, indeed, seriously angry with you at the quantum of your luckpenny; but, vexed and hurt as I was, I could not help laughing very heartily at the noble lord's apology for the missed napkin.