Volume 1 - Electric Scotland

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TXTHODUCTIOX.
rejoice llirit 5'our re.s.lfl(-iK'C on llie estale?, and llie lively porsoiial iufercst
.you lake therein, enables you to cstiinale the pr.sKion correctly.
We also appreciate your desire and efforts to maintain the liii^h reputa-
tion the estates have so long held for advanced agriculture and general
improvements: and it is our de.siie, so far as in our power, to co-operate in
such efforts.
lu offering this expression of our sincere gratitude for your considerate
and generous conduct towards us, we venture to hope that you may long he
spared to enjoy your liigli position, and to receive the profound respect of
your tenantry.
iloflat, L'2nd June 18S3.
TIic address was signed bj- all the tenantry on the Annandale estates,
and is preserved at Eaehills House. Some tinje afterwards the address >yas
followed by a public bani|uet given by the tenantry and friends, during v.hich
Mr. ]Iojie Johnstone made a feeling and appi'opriale repdy to the address.
It now remains, in closing this Introduction, to acknowledge the courtesy
shown by several noblemen and gentlemen in contributing charters of nuicli
interest for the present work. His Grace the Duke of Bueeleucli and
Queensbcri-y, K.T., Tlie Eight Hon. the Earl of Home, Baron Douglas of
Douglas, Tlie lliglit Hon. the Earl of Strathmore and Kingho] ii, and Sir
lleginahl-Archibald Edward Cathcait, Baronet of Carleton, all liberally per-
mitted charters of the Bruccs of Annar^dale both to be printed and litho-
graphed for this work from their respective muniment rooms at Dnimlaui-ig,
Douglas, Glamis, and Killochan.
Edinucrgu, 32 Casile Street,
'Bcccmlcr 1894.
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