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He had not fully regained strength when, to the unspeakable sorrow of its inmates, they learned that Craighouse was sold to the Committee of the Lunatic Asylum, was to be immediately adapted to the purposes of an asylum, and that they must quit it at Whitsuntide.
Its situation is pretty and entirely rural, but with nothing of the unrivalled beauty of that of Craighouse, which commanded a view extending from North Berwick Law to Ben Lomond, yet lay well sheltered among its lovely hills and splendid trees. The great drawback of Morton House, for Dr Burton's family, lay in the greater distance from the town.
He went, and was highly delighted with his visit. He had some years previously received a similar compliment from the University of Edinburgh. Dr Burton, by way of setting a good example to his family, who continued to lament the loss of Craighouse, attached himself excessively to Morton. He was farther attached to it by the recollection of having been Mrs Cunningham's guest there.
Yours truly, J.H. BURTON." Dr Simpson's really universal genius led him pretty deeply into archæology, in which he sometimes, as on the present occasion, showed more zeal than knowledge. One of the first summers at Craighouse was enlivened by a long visit from the African traveller, Captain Speke.
In 1853 a 'Treatise on the Law of Bankruptcy in Scotland, and in the same year his 'History of Scotland from the Revolution to the extinction of the last Jacobite Rebellion. Appointed Secretary to the Prison Board Second marriage Daily life Death of infant child First volunteers Removal to Craighouse.
Morton is fully two miles farther from Edinburgh than Craighouse, the approach to it from the town being a continuous ascent on to a shoulder of the Pentlands.
He was strongly attached to his home and home circle, and preferred having no addition to it. A very partial parent to all his children, his sons were his special pride and happiness. During the first years of Craighouse, his wife was able to accompany him in those long rambles on the Pentlands which were his favourite amusement.
His wife occasionally accompanied him in these excursions, and by experience can judge of the fatigue, or rather the exertion without fatigue, which he underwent in them. At home Dr Burton was never an early riser, but in travelling he willingly performed a first stage before breakfast. On his "Perth days," in going from Craighouse he was obliged to be astir by four in the morning.
From a romantic wish to give his wife what he imagined she desired, Dr Burton returned from Lochgoilhead, leaving his family there, took all the steps for obtaining a lease of Craighouse in their absence, and on their return presented his wife, as her birthday gift, with the keys of Craighouse a huge bunch of antique keys, some of them with picturesque old handles.
Dr Burton had been collecting material for this work in all his summer tours during the past ten years, and in all his visits to the British Museum while in London. He had written a great part of it before he was interrupted by his illness in the end of '77, and the removal from Craighouse early in '78.
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