[Sir Thomas Clouston, Scottish asylum physician and psychiatrist.] Autograph Letter Signed ('T. S Clouston') regarding a donation to an unfortunate woman, and his family holiday on Orkney

2pp, 12mo. On first leaf of bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged, with thin strip of paper from mount adhering to blank second leaf. Folded once. Written in a markedly disordered hand, difficult of decipherment. The recipient is not named. The letter begins: 'My Dear Friend, | It is so sad what you say about Mrs [Baber?] I'll give something, but I am just leaving for [Edinb?] tomorrow & I cant make up mind what it is to be now.' He states that his family have had 'a first rate summer – far better than usually for Orkney', and that all are 'well & happy – our children & grand-children […] We have eaten Grouse, Snipe & [?] till we are fully satisfied!' He concludes with regards to the recipient's family. From the distinguished autograph collection of the psychiatrist Richard Alfred Hunter (1923-1981), whose collection of 7000 works relating to psychiatry is now in Cambridge University Library. Hunter and his mother Ida Macalpine had a particular interest in the illness of King George III, and their book 'George III and the Mad Business' (1969) suggested the diagnosis of porphyria popularised by Alan Bennett in his play 'The Madness of George III'.