to Charles Baxter

[Skerryvore, Bournemouth, July 1886].

DEAR CHARLES,—Doubtless, if all goes well, towards the 1st of August we shall be begging at your door.  Thanks for a sight of the papers, which I return (you see) at once, fearing further responsibility.

Glad you like Dauvit; but eh, man, yon’s terrible strange conduc’ o’ thon man Rankeillor.  Ca’ him a legal adviser!  It would make a bonny law-shuit, the Shaws case; and yon paper they signed, I’m thinking, wouldnae be muckle thought o’ by Puggy Deas.—Yours ever,

R. L. S.