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measure, have made them familiar with both the paternal 

 and maternal name. Be this as it may, I was told that an 

 elderly lady, a Mrs Grierson, was very anxious that I should 

 call upon her. Thinking it unlikely (as I had been already 

 two days in Lerwick) that any young lady would be so, I 

 accepted the invitation of 'mine ancient/ and waited upon 

 her accordingly. I found her to be the eldest daughter 

 of a Captain Grant of Pappochy, of whom, in bygone days, 

 I had often heard my mother tell. He had been billeted, 

 I believe, upon my father, probably before I was born ; 

 a strong attachment sprang up between them, and he and 

 his wife continued to reside in the Paisley house for 

 months, and carried on acquaintance and correspondence 

 with our people for many a year. Of all this you may 

 probably remember more than I ever heard tell of. I 

 myself well recollect a Miss Helen Grant, and another 

 sister, visiting Queen Street when I was a boy, one of 

 them, a fair-haired woman, with a largish longish nose ; 

 and I have a vague notion of their living, during one or 

 more of these visits, with a Mr Manderson, an apothecary, 

 who was afterwards Provost of Edinburgh. Of course it 

 was very interesting to me to hear, in that far distant land, 

 this worthy Mrs Grierson so eloquent in the praises of 

 my parents. I do not know that it was ever my fortune 

 before to hear any one talk of my father as a person whom 

 they had known, excepting, of course, yourself, and others 



