STIRLING,
_December_ 14_th_, [1858].

DEAR CARRETA,

I write a line to tell you that I am well, and that I am on my way to
England, but I am stopped here for a day, for there is no conveyance.
Wherever I can walk I get on very well--but if you depend on coaches or
any means of conveyance in this country you are sure to be disappointed.
This place is but thirty-five miles from Edinburgh, yet I am detained for
a day--there is no train. The waste of that day will prevent me getting
to Yarmouth from Hull by the steamer. Were it not for my baggage I would
walk to Edinburgh. I got to Aberdeen, where I posted a letter for you.
I was then obliged to return to Inverness for my luggage--125 miles.
Rather than return again to Aberdeen, I sent on my things to Dunkeld, and
walked the 102 miles through the Highlands. When I got here I walked to
Loch Lomond and Loch Katrine, thirty-eight miles over horrible roads. I
then got back here. I have now seen the whole of Scotland that is worth
seeing, and have walked 600 miles. I shall be glad to be out of the
country; a person here must depend entirely upon himself and his own
legs. I have not spent much money--my expenses during my wanderings
averaged a shilling a day.

As I was walking through Strathspey, singularly enough I met two or three
of the Phillips. I did not know them, but a child came running after me
to ask me my name. It was Miss P. and two of the children. I hope to
get to you in two or three days after you get this.

God bless you and dear Hen.
GEORGE BORROW.

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LONDON:
Printed for THOMAS J. WISE, Hampstead, N.W.
_Edition limited to Thirty Copies_.

Footnotes:

{7} Borrow's stepdaughter, Henrietta Mary Clarke, afterwards Mrs.
MacOubry.

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