Autograph letter signed ("James Macpherson"), to Captain Clark of the Marines, at Ruthven, giving instructions regarding the building of his house ("...With respect to the covering of the House, I am equally impatient; as after that is done, we can go on with the finishing, at perfect leisure; and so with any other work of convenience or improvement. I am, upon various Accounts and for strong reasons, averse to have so many persons employed about my place, for the future..."), flood defences, and tenants ("...With respect to the tenants of Bellid casting peats, on Invernahaven; that business has been too long neglected: Yet I know not, how one can stop them, for this year, as no notice has been given them early in the Season. You will be so good, as to inform Ralia, what I have mentioned in person to Cluny, that unless this business is finally settled by Arbitration, before the next year, I shall lay a positive interdict upon the Bellid tenants: And you may Acquaint the tenants, that it is merely by sufferance, expressly from me, they are to cut peats this year; and that they must look out some where else for peats, hereafter, unless it is decided, they have a right to cast them, upon my ground..."); autograph franked address on verso ("free/ James Macpherson"), 3 pages, two small mounting-patches, 4to, London, 25 May 1791