Original, unsigned.

Concerning business matters; Edinburgh; travel plans; et al.

Mentions ?the writer [Joseph] Hume or ?the politician [Joseph] Hume; [?James] Marshal [Marshall]; [Francis] Jeffrey; [Archibald] Constable; Dugald Stewart; Earl of Buchan, [David] Erskine; Barber

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