Autograph Letter Signed from Andrew Duncan Senior to an unnamed member of the British Cabinet, 4 June 1827

The recipient is not named, and the letter begins: "Although I have already often interrupted important business of State, yet I trust you will once more, forgive an Octogenarian, when he can plead, that his principal temptation, to transgression, is an earnest desire to promote the publick good -". He recommends to the recipient's attention "the enclosed printed paper, respecting the Caledonian Horticultural Society". If the recipient, as "a member of the Kings Cabinet Council", can be "in any degree instrumental in getting Mr Neill, Secretary to the Caledonian Horticultural Society, appointed Professor of Horticulture in the University of Edinburgh", he will, Duncan is convinced, "do an essential servive to the whole British Empire".