Название: Joseph Knight
Автор: James Robertson
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Историческая литература
isbn: 9780007374267
isbn:
Joseph Knight
James Robertson
For Marianne
Contents
Drummossie Moor, 16 April 1746
Kingston, January – March 1747
Ballindean, May 1802 / Jamaica, 1760
Dundee, May 1802 / Jamaica, 1763
Dundee and Ballindean, October 1802
Dundee, 15 January 1803 / Edinburgh, 15 January 1778
From Mr Peter Burnet of Paisley
TO BE SOLD
A BLACK BOY, about 16 years of age, healthy, strong, and well made, has had the Measles and small pox, can shave and dress a little, and has been for these several years accustomed to serve a single Gentleman, both abroad and at home.
For further particulars inquire at Mr Gordon bookseller in the Parliament-close, Edinburgh, who has full powers to conclude a bargain.
This advertisement not to be repeated.
EDINBURGH EVENING COURANT, 28 JANUARY 1769
FOR KINGSTON IN JAMAICA
The ship MARY, JOHN MURRAY Master, now in Leith Harbour, will be ready to take in goods by the 20th September, and clear to sail by the fifth October.
For freight or passage apply to Alexander Scott Merchant in Edinburgh, or to the Master at Mrs Ritchie’s on the Shore of Leith.
EDINBURGH EVENING COURANT, 2 SEPTEMBER 1769
Sir John Wedderburn, tall but somewhat stooped with age, stood at the windows of his library, enjoying – as he felt he should every morning he was given grace to do so – the view to the Carse of Gowrie and the Firth of Tay. Ballindean’s policies stretched out before him: the lawn in front of the house, the little loch, then the parkland dotted with black cattle, sun-haloed sheep and their impossibly white lambs. Thick ranks of sycamore, birch and pine enclosed the house and its immediate grounds. Beyond the trees, smoke rose from the lums of estate cottages and the village of Inchture and was immediately scattered by a breeze from the east.
Had he ventured outside, Sir John could have looked behind the house, СКАЧАТЬ