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Buchan, David Stewart Erskine, Earl of, 1742-1829 to Macaulay, Catharine

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01794.07 Author/Creator: Buchan, David Stewart Erskine, Earl of, 1742-1829 Place Written: Middleton, West Lothian, Scotland Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 25 June 1769 Pagination: 4p : docket ; 22.5 x 18.6 cm Order a Copy

The local common people are simple and congenial to the spirit of liberty but are entrenched in the feudal system, making civil government weak and ineffective. He writes of Presbyterian tendencies to choose local pastors at the destruction of revolutionary patronage. He comments on the popularity of her writing.

The 11th Earl of Buchan, David Steuart Erskine, (1742–1829)

Macaulay, Catharine, 1731-1791

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