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Westfield, Dunbar,Sept. 22, '94. My dear Cousin: I duly received your kind letter of the 7th. I am always truly pleased
to have a letter from you, should it only be a few lines, as I know you have a busy useful life, the time must fly quickly
with you. I am sure your dear family will be very happy this season to have you with them, and not climbing those ice-bound
mountains. We will look out for the Country Magazine to read your paper in it. We had our house let 5 weeks this summer,
and got a nice holiday. We only went to the village of East Linton, 6 miles from here. Susan got two weeks leave of absence
and came to us. Maggie and she went off on a four days trip to the Highlands to Oban, and went through the pass of Glencoe.
They returned highly delighted with all they had seen. After getting settled down here again Maggie is away to visit our
friends Mr. James Hay and family. You may be sure they will have many a talk about you. It is last September that you and
Mag gie went to Liverpool, and they all saw you sail for your far-away home. What a great comfort to your dear Mother to
know all her family are well and doing well in their worldly concerns. I am very sorry and annoyed to think I have only had
of Picturesque California the Jan. number, after your kindness and expense about wishing us to have it. James Hay is trying
to find out where the fault can be, as he gets his regularly. It is very kind of him also. I cannot understand where the photos
of your dear bairns will be wandering to, as they have not yet reached Dunbar. I was pleased to hear Mrs. Kelly and Susan
had got them and all were not lost. I am wondering if you got the old Psalm Book of Grandfather I sent you about June I am
enclosing a Poem of Dunbar. They are being republished. Letter incomplete Margaret Hay Lunam