P.S.—Direct to me at Mossgiel, parish of Mauchline, near Kilmarnock.
[6a] Probably John Caird, junior, as the father would be over sixty if he was about his wife's age, and she, Elspat Burnes, was born, we know, in 1725.
XII.—TO THOMAS ORR, PARK, KIRKOSWALD.
DEAR THOMAS,—I am much obliged to you for your last letter, though I assure you the contents of it gave me no manner of concern. I am presently so cursedly taken in with an affair of gallantry that I am very glad Peggy
is off my hand, as I am at present embarrassed enough