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The Duchess of Argyle desires her compliments to you, and is much obliged to you for remembering her commission. I am, sir, Your most obedient humble servant, Inveraray, Oct. 29, 1773. I am happy to insert every memorial of the honour done to my great friend.
I wondered at this; and observed, that his building so great a house at Inveraray was not like a narrow man. 'Sir, said he, 'when a narrow man has resolved to build a house, he builds it like another man. But Archibald, Duke of Argyle, was narrow in his ordinary expences, in his quotidian expences. The distinction is very just.
Mr M'Aulay and I laid the map of Scotland before us; and he pointed out a rout for us from Inverness, by Fort Augustus, to Glenelg, Sky, Mull, Icolmkill, Lorn, and Inveraray, which I wrote down.
Dr Johnson and I passed some time together, in June 1784, at Pembroke College, Oxford, with the Reverend Dr Adams, the master, and I having expressed a regret that my note relative to Mr Archibald Campbell was imperfect, he was then so good as to write with his own hand, on the blank page of my Journal, opposite to that which contains what I have now mentioned, the following paragraph; which, however, is not quite so full as the narrative he gave at Inveraray: The Honourable Archibald Campbell was, I believe, the nephew of the Marquis of Argyle.
When I went into Dr Johnson's room this morning, I observed to him how wonderfully courteous he had been at Inveraray, and said, 'You were quite a fine gentleman, when with the duchess. He answered, in good humour, 'Sir, I look upon myself as a very polite man': and he was right, in a proper manly sense of the word.
On the very day that these events were happening in far-away America, two ladies, Miss Campbell of Ederein and her sister, were walking from Kilmalieu to Inveraray, and had reached the then new bridge over the Aray. One of them happened to look up at the sky. She gave a call to her sister to look also. They both of them saw in the sky what looked like a siege going on.
And with a somewhat ironical bow he left the stranger gaping with astonishment. "Now, what is the meaning of this, and what does Mr Mackintosh of Inveraray want with Carlos, I wonder?" mused the young man, as he strode off across the Park. He considered the matter carefully for a few minutes, and presently snapped his fingers as he felt that he had solved the puzzle.
'The Duchess of Argyle desires her compliments to you, and is much obliged to you for remembering her commission. 'I am, Sir, 'Your most obedient humble servant, 'Inveraray, Oct. 29, 1773. I am happy to insert every memorial of the honour done to my great friend.
When I expressed my discontent at our confinement, Dr Johnson said, 'Now that I have had an opportunity of writing to the main land, I am in no such haste. I was amused with his being so easily satisfied; for the truth was, that the gentleman who was to convey our letters, as I was now informed, was not to set out for Inveraray for some time; so that it was probable we should be there as soon as he: however, I did not undeceive my friend, but suffered him to enjoy his fancy.
It will perhaps interest you, for I am greatly mistaken if it does not concern you both, even more than it does me." And therewith Jack proceeded to give a humorous relation of his two encounters with the foreign-looking gentleman claiming to be one of the Mackintoshes of Inveraray.
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