Author: Thomas Dick Lauder

TO THE

RIGHT HON. THE COUNTESS GREY.

Dear Lady Grey.

With your permission, I now dedicate these volumes to you. I should do so with great diffidence, did I not know that everything connected with Scotland is interesting to you.

By associating them with a name so universally revered I give them value; whilst I afford to myself an opportunity of expressing my admiration of those many virtues and amiable qualities which have rendered it so much beloved in your person by all ranks who have the good fortune to come within reach of their influence; and I have thus also the satisfaction of expressing my warm sense of the kindness I have received from you and Lord Grey ever since I have had the honour of being known to you, as well as of assuring you that I am,

With every possible respect,

Dear Lady Grey, 

Very sincerely and faithfully yours, 

THOS. DICK LAUDER. [8]