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Title: Letter from Elizabeth Campbell Containing Health Advice

Author(s): Campbell, Elizabeth

Dear Madam

I recieved yours and regreat the melincolly account
you gave me of your ill state of helth
I send you [¿] which has done great
[¿] in your caſe and offers us the [¿]
[¿] my advyce is that you take three
sponfulls of the [¿] every morning in a draft
of [¿] milk [¿]
I [¿] you may be soon very well [¿]
[¿] had provided for
Arche Campbell your son, I hope sone your
other son will be provided for also,
I will not fail to come by you as I goe
for Edr in caſe it pleaſe god to spare you
which I pray god you may be and [¿]
powerfully to your helth,
My lord [¿] shall [¿] me [¿]
[¿] to be houſe keeper to her
brother at the [¿],
[¿]

[¿] she has [¿] her selfe away
upon, she has two children alive and one
dead and [¿] has had but two and
both alive Mrs Menzies is in good helth
and is [¿] your humble servant, I am

Dear Madam
your faithfull humble
servant
E Argyl


My [¿] and best
[¿] to Soccoch,
and your dauhter
[¿]
Elizth. of [¿]
