[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.