Will it serve your correspondent Ȝ., to state that at Inversnaid, on the borders of Loch Lomond, where Wordsworth met his immortalised "Highland Girl," there is a ruined fort, erected in 1716 to keep the clan Gregor in order, and which was taken and retaken, repaired and dismantled, but which, after the rebellion of '45, was occupied by the king's troops? There is a tradition that General James Wolfe was, for a time, stationed here. This tradition is referred to in all the guide Books, but no precise date is given.
G. W.
In the United States Institution there is a pencil profile of General Wolfe. It was presented to that collection by the Duke of Northumberland (when Lord Prudhoe).
On the back of the sketch itself are written these words:
"This sketch belonged to Lieut.-Col. Gwillim, A.D. Camp to Genl. Wolfe when he was killed. It is supposed to have been sketched by Harvey Smith."
On the back of the frame there is a paper, with the following inscription:
"This portrait of General Wolfe, from which his bust was principally taken, was hastily sketched by Harvey Smith, one of his aid-de-camps, a very short time before that distinguished officer was killed on the plains of Abraham. It then came into the possession of Colonel Gwillim, another of the General's aid-de-camps, who died afterwards at Gibraltar; and from him to Mrs. Simcoe, the Colonel's only daughter and heiress; then to Major-General Darling (who was on General Simcoe's staff); and is now presented by him to his Grace the Duke of Northumberland.
"Alnwick, Jan. 23, 1832."
This interesting sketch hangs near the case containing the sword worn by Wolfe when he fell.
L. H. J. T.