| Description | [She is still in town. Dined at Cover with the Lord Advocate and Provost Colquhone, who enquired after him and wished he would visit Scotland. Comments on an engineer who had come from London. She has not yet visited Greenock because of the bad weather. Presents. She has talked to her father and Gilbert [Hamilton] about the smokeless furnace but they are afraid of the expense of the patent. People there do not complain of the smoke. She has been to Delftfield Pottery and will order some plain items. Asks him to send his crest.] |