| Description | Writes at length on the election of Mr Buchanan to the Chair of Natural Philosophy in St Andrews University; talks about general family matters, the weather and his health; refers to 'the success of Mr Parkinson's machine, so long reckoned chimerical' and to the 'club' [?golf]
25 May 1759
[David Steuart Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan (1742-1829), styled Lord Cardross between 1747 and 1767, Scottish antiquarian and patron of the arts and sciences; studied at the University of St Andrews] |