6 p. 24 x 20 cm. Letter is dated: Friday noon - Sunday Morn, and it is a reply to Thornton's of Nov. 3. It is also referred to in Hayley-Thornton letter of Nov. 17. Letter includes 3 p. of holograph verse Hayley's translation of Dante's Inferno, Canto 3 and Canto 1.
Wishing Argyll, Captain General of the Royal Army at Stirling, a happy new year. "I look upon it as ye greatest compliment ye government could make you, to distresse you so long." Jacobite Rebellion, 1715. ACC: 93.4.2 (44.57)