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earlier views of some of Montrose's actions.
I could lend you the old copy which I
still have of that number of Blackwood
if you would care to see it.

Few people can have read with greater
appreciation than myself (and one of
my daughters, who also writes) the
verses which you have placed at the
beginning of your book. They appeal
very specially to me, for my only
brother, who died many years ago, and
I, also played at being Montrose and
other royalists, when I, the elder by