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This morning Monday 13th
at 9.30 with Mother & Car.
to see the chesnuts at
Bushey; also to Hampton
Ct (but did not get out,)
a bleak day, a great
change fr. the hot weather
we have enjoyed
during the last fortnight;
bye the bye last Friday
morg. between 4 & [5]
I receved a message fr.
Mother to go to her as there
was a thunder storm; I did so & we
escaped being extinguished
ensemble, which she at
the time fully expected.

Thursday, May. 30th Chiswick.
On Thursday week, May 14th
to town at 3. Met Sir D.
Dundas at the Travellers
who gave me some parting
advice about my election.

Left London by the limited
Mail at 8.40. Carlisle
at 4.30. & at Perth
on Wednesday morg. May 15th
Inverness at 3.30. p.m.
Bonar Bridge at 6;
the most unpleasant
part of the journey was
fr. Bonar to Golspie;
intensely cold, especially
for me on the top of the
coach; Mr Fraser of
Dornoch was the first electer
I saw he was at the inn
at [Bon] Abbey with some