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- GLC#
- GLC01794.07-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- June 25, 1769
- Author/Creator
- Buchan, David Stewart Erskine, Earl of, 1742-1829
- Title
- to Catharine Macaulay
- Place Written
- Middleton, West Lothian, Scotland
- Pagination
- 4p : docket ; Height: 22.5 cm, Width: 18.6 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- Road to Revolution
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)
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