[Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville. ] Autograph Letter Signed ('Henry Dundas') to an unnamed recipient, discussing 'Lord Polwarths Letter', Sir John Paterson, 'Mr Scott', and an 'unfortunate' influence on a father and son.

3pp., 4to. Bifolium. On aged and worn paper. He writes that he had 'heard the Report propagated by Sir John of your having given different accounts to the Father & the son', but considering the source he did not believe it, and 'the excerpts of Letters' directly refute it. 'I am extremely pleased with Lord Polwarth's Letter to you & as to any thing else I think you have no reason to feel any regret'. He wishes the father had paid heed to the suggestions in the recipient's letter, 'but every thing bears the indisputable mark of the influence he is under, so unfortunate to himself, & so injurious to his son'. He also discusses two 'candidates' (for the Governorship of the Royal Bank of Scotland?) - 'Mr Scott' and Sir John Paterson.