Overview
Six letters by Flora Macleod Mure-Campbell of Raasay, Scotland (a friend of James Boswell) to her mother, and other family papers.
Dates
- Creation: 1775-1783
Language of Materials
Collection materials are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions on physical access to this material.
Extent
.5 linear feet (1 box)This collection consists of six letters from Flora Macleod Mure-Campbell to her mother (including one which mentions James Boswell); one letter concerning her death by her mother; and her sister's marriage contract.
Biographical / Historical
Flora Macleod was the daughter of John Macleod and Jean Macqueen Macleod of Raasay, Scotland, near the Island of Skye. She was mentioned several times in the diaries of James Boswell. Boswell introduced her to writer Samuel Johnson during their 1773 tour of the Hebrides. Johnson called her "the princess," and described her as "the beauty of this part of the world, and has been polished at Edinburgh" (letters to Hester Thrale, 1773 Sept. 14 and Sept. 24, MS Hyde 1, item 93). In 1777, she married James Mure-Campbell (1726-1786), later the Earl of Loudon. She died in 1780 during the birth of their only child Flora, later Flora Hastings-Rawdon, Marchioness of Hastings (1780-1840).
Physical Location
b (shelved with bMS Hyde 90-92)
Provenance
Purchased by Mary Hyde from Winifred Myers in 1970 July.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
2003JM-58 (part). Bequest of Mary Hyde Eccles, Four Oaks Farm, Somerville, New Jersey; received: 2004.
Bibliography
Processing Information
Processed by: Rick Stattler
- Title
- Mure-Campbell, Flora Macleod, d. 1780. Flora Macleod Mure-Campbell papers, 1775-1783: Guide.
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou01776
Repository Details
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